I believe clarity is a form of kindness. We build better things when we start by asking: who needs to understand this?

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I founded my company in 1986. I had a diploma, no money, but a clear will: to practice this regulated, useful profession and make my place in it. At the time, the economy was already going in circles — there was talk of crisis, then recovery, then crisis again. Nothing new; but I was just starting out.

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If my anger was gone

If my unhappiness was gone

If my sadness was gone

May be I would be able to live

Maybe able to smile

Maybe

Leaving all this to stop and

Going somewhere different and unknown

I’m scared, only scared.

The incomprehensible life blow everything away

In a stormy migraine

Leaving a desert of feeling except fear

My tears rip my face and dropped on the ground

Without noise

Who cares anyway?

Nobody.

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