We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it’s your turn to stand up and stand out.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement

Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.

It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.

All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.