Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.

Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

Defending mediocrity is exhausting.