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Week one: the four things that surprise almost everybody

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    Collected from a long line of anonymised first-week messages. Four things come up over and over, so here they are before they happen to you. 1. The first night is not the test. Almost nobody sleeps well the first night wearing a new object on their face. That is not …

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      Adding the hardware half, since point 2 is where the first month is actually spent. …

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        And the data half of point 4, since it is the one this board can …

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          Last thing, and the one that matters most in week one: the point of all …

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