# Five for 50 - Anil Dash

<https://www.anildash.com/2025/09/05/five-for-fifty/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Anil Dash reflecting on ways to have positive impact on his 50th birthday. 

> 1. Give to those who help the people who are most in need in your immediate community.
> 2. Invest the time in exploring, preserving, sharing, and promoting the subject of your passions.
> 3. Fight for the ability to create, and to own and control what you make.
> 4. Be kind and forgiving to yourself, and treat yourself like a friend.
> 5. Don't wait until they're dead.

Some good stuff to think about.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT326: Weekly Thing 326 / Tempo, Seedship, Refraction](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/326/), Notable

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