Disruptive Empathy

Disruptive Empathy

Hope, Potential, and the Cost of Exposure

The triptych of creation

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Eric Near
Dec 09, 2025
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When you talk about building a tech startup (or really, anything truly new), you’re not talking about predictable spreadsheets and established markets. You are talking about a fundamental emotional gamble. You are betting your time, your money, and your sanity on things that do not yet exist, and might never work.

I’ve come to realize that this entire ec…

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