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One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.

Andrew Mason

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Andrew Mason
Age: 54
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Mount Lebanon
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Andrew D. Mason
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