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From dropout to Apple engineer, overcoming addiction and building an OS from scratch - Andreas Kling

The Aarthi and Sriram Show

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The Importance of Accepting Your Obsession

When he went to rehab, his therapist said that maybe you're replacing one on healthy obsession with a healthy obsession. He had this way of saying it that would rhyme better in Swedish but basically his idea was that it's better that you get fat than that you keep doing drugs. So I've always been obsessive. It's just that when you have obsession and you point it at the wrong thing, it becomes very destructive. That really stuck with me. And why does one decide to go full-stack? You can control the whole stack because then if you need to change something, the expert on that thing is like two doors down or at worst, like in the next building or whatever

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