Agalia Tan

Like metal cooling in a new shape, your expression, posture, even the cadence of your speech start to carry the imprint of the one who sees you.

Imagine an alternative paradigm: A company develops a product that primarily creates well-paid, happy employees. As an externality, the public also benefits.

In this scenario we’ve reversed the flow of the river. As Dart Lindsley argues, ‘work’ is the product, and now we can start thinking about how to improve that product where employee engagement... See more

Find invigoration trips. Trips that give you a dose of inspiration. You feel like a new person. Could be your favorite coffeeshop to 24h in a cabin in the woods. Know you invigoration places and visit often.

When we forget our ability to choose, we learn to be helpless. Drip by drip, we allow our power to be taken away until we end up becoming a function of other people's choices — or even a function of our own past choices. In turn, we surrender our power to choose.

But that’s online dating, I’ve always thought: random and chaotic and terrible and weird and then — with time or patience — transformative.

The hardest part about being in a leadership position in a company is it requires this constant calibration of arrogance and humility. The arrogance to believe that we are going to build a more sublime internet but also the humility to know that there are many things that we will be wrong about. And it's hard because it's often not clear at what... See more