<story><title>Eight years today</title><url>http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2012/03/eight-years-today.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paul</author><text>I know this isn&apos;t obviously startup related, but it is. Please read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JunkDNA</author><text>Thanks for writing this Paul. I lost my dad just over 10 years ago to pancreatic cancer. He was 46 and I was 23, just starting my career. It was a wakeup call about what really matters in life. Now that some time has passed it&apos;s easy to lose sight of those lessons. So easy to place value on the 95% of the things in the world that don&apos;t really matter and instead ignore the 5% that do. I&apos;d trade all the retina display iDevices I&apos;ve owned or will ever own if my two year old daughter could meet her grandpa for even a few minutes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Eight years today</title><url>http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2012/03/eight-years-today.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paul</author><text>I know this isn&apos;t obviously startup related, but it is. Please read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>Thanks for writing that, Paul.&lt;p&gt;Six months ago, I lost a family member to glioblastoma, another one of those &quot;get your affairs in order&quot; cancers. It was 3 months from beginning to end for us as well.&lt;p&gt;In the interim, it seems like I&apos;ve had two sorts of conversations. Ones with people who have experienced loss, and ones with those who haven&apos;t. The latter group are perfectly nice people, but there&apos;s a gap. So I am very grateful that you&apos;ve taken the time to write about issues that are so present to me and so many others.&lt;p&gt;And yes, of course this is about startups: Beginnings and endings. Loss and acceptance. Presence in the moment. Creation and joy. And choosing wisely how to spend what little time we each have.</text></comment>