I want to live in a world where you can have an impact and be happy. Maybe that’s naive, but I’m sticking to it.

All of this occurs naturally to Kelly, and he doesn’t have complicated feelings about it. I’m hoping to get there myself by channeling him more. “The more you pursue interests,” he told me on the good day we spent together, “the more you... See more

A few years ago, I forced myself to try and write down a professional goal. After several hours of forced meditation on the topic, all I could muster was “have a good day, most days.” And don’t get me wrong, by “good day” I don’t mean sitting by a pool drinking an Aperol Spritz. I feel alive when I launch something exciting, close a big deal, or... See more

“What I’m talking about is taking your interests seriously enough to have the courage to stay moving. You can give stuff away. You can abandon things. You can tolerate failure because you know that tomorrow there is more.”

I asked Kelly about the tradeoffs of focusing on a single thing if you want to be great (which is what I had been getting at... See more

I learned that Kelly doesn’t think in outputs. For him, doing is part of learning. “I don’t really pursue a destination,” he said. “I pursue a direction.”