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Layoffs, Reflection, and Rebuilding the Future
Layoffs aren't inherently meaningful. But I've been making my own meaning as best as I can and rebuilding the future that was taken from me.
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Layoffs, Grief, and the Loss of the Future
Losing my role at Google meant grieving a future that would never come to be. But it also opened up new possible futures I never would have considered.