Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.

No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.

The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.

The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.

There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.