🎙️ The Critical Path

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Here’s something we think is pretty cool: A wealthy New York City couple has bought run-down waterfront properties and rented them out to tenants with Section 8 rent vouchers.

The housing is open to many low-income families, but it’s especially for the formerly incarcerated.

“Moving to the ocean was so profound and restorative for our family that we wanted to share it with as many people as we could,” they said. “I wondered: Who needs the water the most? People who spent time living in cages seemed like a good place to start.”

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Matthew and Shawn

Quote of the Day

“The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined.

Figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.”

Sam Altman

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