“The Skip is the name of the podcast and newsletter and skip.show takes us to both.”
The Skip
By Nikhyl Singhal
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“Nel singal who runs the skip which is a community”
“the reason I called my newsletter my podcast the skip is because I always think about like what's not the next job”
“the other one is this sort of newsletter that I have on sub stack”
“it's the skip.substack.com”
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