Watch this incredible clip:

Back in high school, I did something really stupid. Few years later, it would come to bite. Another few years later, here I am offering advice to anyone who has done something stupid: don't go talking openly about it. Especially not on camera. This is way harder than it sounds nonetheless an important lesson, even for me.

I can't say that I support what Zynga CEO did. In fact, I doubt if even he supports what he did. This video really resonates with me in two ways:

• You can feel the hunger in Mark Pincus' words. he really needed revenue. guess what? he got it! lots of it!
• It tells me how if I was the ceo of Zynga, it would probably be broke. After my past experience, I swore never to do anything remotely stupid like that. Ever. At times this makes me pass on lucrative(yet somewhat fishy) oppurtunities. On the upside, I goto sleep a lot better. Way better.