Ex-GitHub CEO Jason Jaesmail on ambition without compromise: the Great Lakes Business essay
beh_zod · x · 2026-11-12
Former GitHub CEO Jason Jaesmail invokes Paul Graham's idea that great cities send subtle messages of ambition, argues many of those messages lack the breadth of a truly ambitious life, and writes an essay on the "Great Lakes Business" — ambition without compromise. behzod amplifies it: too many people move through life without actually living, and what they make reflects that.
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