There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.

If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth.

Are you lazy or just incompetent?

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.

I like to be counted on.

I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.