Lucky people create their own opportunities

How lucky are you? An experiment with 400 people on what luck is.

Dec 16 • Melissa Kwan

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7 things that made us an attractive acquisition

How to build a buyable business every day.

Dec 9 • Melissa Kwan

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Can you get religious about it?

The missing piece to Ikigai.

Dec 2 • Melissa Kwan

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November 2025

This month's good stuff

Things that got me thinking this month.

Nov 30 • Melissa Kwan

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Progress doesn't feel like winning

When everything feels hard and nothing seems to work.

Nov 25 • Melissa Kwan

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I procrastinated 2 years. Then AI was invented.

Why I'm both impressed and terrified by what AI just did.

Nov 18 • Melissa Kwan

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What happened when my startup got acquired

The hidden process behind what happens when a startup gets acquired.

Nov 11 • Melissa Kwan

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October 2025

Why I didn't sell our startup to the highest bidder

How I grew resentful of my business and found an acquirer

Oct 21 • Melissa Kwan

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Why ‘your number’ doesn’t matter

How much money are you trying to make?

Oct 7 • Melissa Kwan

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September 2025

When balance becomes complacency

Work/life imbalance can be caused by too much life.

Sep 22 • Melissa Kwan

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Where you wake up determines your success

Do you have founder-geography fit?

Sep 9 • Melissa Kwan

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June 2025

What losing delusional self-belief did to my startup

A story about fear, fire, and finding my way back to myself.

Jun 16 • Melissa Kwan

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