{"id":1465,"date":"2026-06-25T18:28:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/06\/25\/the-best-business-decision-i-ever-made-had-nothing-to-do-with-strategy-my-fathe\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:28:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:28:42","slug":"the-best-business-decision-i-ever-made-had-nothing-to-do-with-strategy-my-fathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/06\/25\/the-best-business-decision-i-ever-made-had-nothing-to-do-with-strategy-my-fathe\/","title":{"rendered":"The best business decision I ever made had nothing to do with strategy. My fathe\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best business decision I ever made had nothing to do with strategy. My father called me a fool for quitting a stable job. I picked up the phone and let him finish. Then I built anyway.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2070212605248176230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X (Twitter)<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best business decision I ever made had nothing to do with strategy. My father called me a fool for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-x-posts","post_format-post-format-aside","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}