If you let pride stop you, you will hate life

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.

I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.

It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it.

Just because you are embarrassed to admit that you're still living the consequences of bad decisions made 5, 10, 20 years ago shouldn't stop you from making good decisions now. If you let pride stop you, you will hate life 5, 10, and 20 years from now for the same reasons.

Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run.

The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.