We are a collage of our interests, our influences, our inspirations, all the fragmentary impressions we've collected by being alive and awake to the world. Who we "are" is simply a finely curated catalog of those.

Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.

he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...

I didn't really - at least intellectually and creatively - have a particularly compelling experience in college. But during my junior year, they made the TED talks public. So I started listening to them. They were producing one per day, and I was listening to one per day, every day, at the gym.

Build pockets of stillness into your life.

Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.