What Tobias Lütke thinks about ambition

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

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1. 18 Sept 2025

   Our readingAt the end of life you meet the person you could have become, and the work of a life is minimising the distance to them.

   Their wordsI I I just feel at the end of life you meet the people the person you could have become. Um, and uh I So so you I think the work in life is try to minimize the difference between um that person and and who you actually ended up being.

   ↗ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke)youtube.com 21st of 21 in this recording