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How Do You Know You're Beautiful?

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This week I have a choose your adventure approach to this newsletter.
I've been writing a really short essay every day and posting it on twitter.
Here are the 3 best ones for the week. You can click on the link to read the tweet and the short essay.
Read the one that looks really interesting, or if you're really daring...read 'em all!
My favorite of the bunch and the most popular one. It's about the power of witnessing beauty. Read here.
How do you know if you're beautiful?
I'm sure you've heard this thought question/stoner question:
If a tree fell in the woods would it make a sound
Well here's a better one:
If you're beautiful but nobody is around to see it, are you beautiful?
Day 4 of #ship30for30 pic.twitter.com/hNpYGIQzK7
— Pranav 🚢 (@PranavMutatkar) February 18, 2021
2. A short summary of a great Paul Graham essay. It's about how to be more innovative. Read here.
Want to be wildly innovative?
Then stop living in the present.
Instead, live in the future.
Look around, what do you see? What's missing?
I spun a @paulg essay about startup ideas into a reminder to myself about the long game of innovation.
Day 2 of #ship30for30 pic.twitter.com/7M7EmjJWRi
— Pranav 🚢 (@PranavMutatkar) February 16, 2021
3. If you're an OG Fan you've read most of this one before. It's about the power of my favorite type of writing. Read here.
My favorite moment in a conversation is
when someone suddenly gets real.
Their voice becomes quiet and throaty as they tell you something deeply vulnerable.
That's my favorite type of writing too.
I call them whispers.
Mary Ruefle inspired essay for day 6 of #ship30for30 pic.twitter.com/XdsKoWVl5Y
— Pranav 🚢 (@PranavMutatkar) February 21, 2021
Which essay did you read? Which essay was your favorite?
<3,
Pranav