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Bowling with bumpers.

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Adam Griffin
Apr 07, 2023
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Remember when you were a kid and you could launch a bowling bowl down the lane with abandon? You didn’t have to worry about precision because the bumpers were down and even if you chucked it a hair from the gutter before it landed, the bumper was there to nudge it back to center, only to be nudged once again by the other bumper toward its ultimate destination - the pins.

Then at some point when we got older we decided to take ourselves too seriously and put the bumpers away.

Hello gutters.

Life is a bit like that. Let me explain.

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