Aditya K Suresh

One of the best ways I’ve found to organize one’s thoughts about a huge swath of intellectual and creative space, is to write a syllabus

9 elements of flow: 1. There are clear goals every step of the way 2. There is immediate feedback to one's actions 3. There is a balance between challenges and skills 4. Action and awareness are merged 5. Distractions are excluded from consciousness 6. There is no worry of failure 7. Self-consciousness disappears 8. The sense of time becomes distor... See more

A funny thing happens when you begin to capture competitive differences on paper”, says Harvard Professor

Youngme Moon

in her book

Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd

, “there is a natural inclination for folks in the competitive set to focus on eliminating differences rather than accentuating them.”

Agency is the drive to play a game you created. Chart your own path. Forget politics. Work when, how, and where you want. Lean in—to your unique “why.”