For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble.

if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it