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

I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

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

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

Don't fix me; Love me for what's broken.

More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.