People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.

Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.

Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.

Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow.