Do You Actually Want Success, or Just Recognition?
One of us admits they would take the applause over the achievement. Nobody in the room comes out of this conversation looking particularly noble.
Published 11 June 2026
About this conversation
We start by teasing each other about LinkedIn and end up somewhere much less comfortable: how much of what we are chasing is the thing itself, and how much is being seen doing it.
“If nobody could ever find out you did it, would you still want it?”
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