🎙️ Born to Ramble

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I’m just iterating: All the things we call “finding ourselves.”

Sometimes a life reset isn't a failure. It's just another iteration.

In this episode of Born to Ramble, Nikki talks about the surprisingly useful concept of iteration—a word borrowed from her years working in software development—and how it applies to real life, career changes, creativity, writing, and figuring out what the hell you're doing next.

In my period of self-discovery and mid-life pivot, I have tried so many things, but not everything has stuck. I keep hearing people say “fail fast,” but honestly I don’t see them as failures! They can’t all be winners! This leads me to my IDEA of the day: iterations: small versions of a bigger life that is still being built.

Now, onto this week’s short story:

“The World's First Invisible Battery-Powered Car” by Substack writer ScaryLarryPants, from The Comedy Corner in the Round Room of Substack. The story involves Burning Man, an invisible electric car, a billionaire inventor, questionable technology, and approximately zero responsible product testing.

In other words: it's perfect.

I’m so excited about reading other writers' work on the podcast, building relationships within the Substack writing community, and creating an audience around my own writing.

The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman.

In this episode:

Why “iteration” might be a better way to think about starting over

What losing a job can teach you about reinvention

Building a creative career one experiment at a time

Why not everything you try has to work

The importance of building an audience before pitching a book

Reading and supporting other writers on Substack

“The World's First Invisible Battery-Powered Car”

Burning Man, invisible technology, and spectacularly bad product launches

Why Nikki loves weird, funny, believable-but-not-actually-true stories

A recommendation for The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman

If you're in the middle of a career change, mid-life reset, creative reinvention, or just wondering why you haven't “figured it out” yet, this one's for you.

you're not failing! You might just be in your XP era 🙂

Or maybe you're just on version 7.

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