change is confusing + tahoe, u up?
BLACKOUT, BEST SELLERS —
somewhere in the beginning of adulthood, i convinced myself that i was good at change. hell, i moved across the country (and remind you all of it weekly) and landed on two feet with the help of some amazing hearts.
if i was actually good at it, however, the past 3 1/2 months would have been a little different. i, like so many others, are in a whirlwind of watching the structures we thought could never change be challenged on the daily. it is welcome. it was a breaking point.
it’s all teaching me so much more about how change isn’t a flight across the country and an adjustment period. in fact, it isn’t even about adaption. change is more of an active activity than my passive self previously understood.
more later, but first my words + reads:
my words: investors based in san francisco? that’s so 2019
etc: this story was inspired by what one investor said to me the other day: will lake tahoe’s seed ecosystem have a resurgence? bourgeois bunker jokes aside, this new redistribution of investors could create some interesting — and perhaps more inclusive — changes in the way venture-backed businesses are funded.
learning lesson: we spent so much time trying to comprehend the ‘new normal’ that the old normal slinked back into every day. let me paraphrase what one investor said to me earlier today: "one day valuations are low. one day they are high. sometimes it is competitive and sometimes it is dry."
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anyways,
we’re taught that change looks like something to welcome with open arms and fly across the country for. in reality, change is not a one-way. it is not a flight, it’s getting stuck in security, missing your layover, getting the aisle seat and forgetting your xanax in your checked in luggage.
the flurry of unprecedented change, and the emotions that come with it, has reminded me that the existing structures i always believed were set in stone are on far softer ground.
that is empowering. it doesn’t mean we can all rush to control or predict what’s next, but it does mean we can finally start questioning the things we thought we just had to accept.
somewhere in the beginning of my adulthood, i thought that change was something i could triumph. i’m starting to realize that this realization may have weakened me more than empowered me.
and that feels like a small step somewhere.
to tomorrow,
n