The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.

Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.

If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work

We fail when we give up too soon.

Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.

The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.