A good job is largely anonymous and forgotten (but still important). A personal job, on the other hand, is humanized. It brings us closer together. It might not be remarkable, but it stands out as memorable because (however briefly) the recipient of the work was touched by someone else. Often, remarkable work is personal too, but personal might just be enough for today.

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.

As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.

When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter.

The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior.

The self has no boundaries except those it accepts out of ignorance

Don't worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead.