Inciteful

“Talk either leads to action or substitutes for action.

Two friends discuss their dreams. One describes starting a business, solving a problem mid-conversation, and immediately making a call. The other talks about a novel they’ve been “writing” for years but never seem to make progress on.

Build, don’t babble.”

At critical moments in time, you can raise the aspirations of other people significantly, especially when they are relatively young, simply by suggesting they do something better or more ambitious than what they might have in mind. It costs you relatively little to do this, but the benefit to them, and to the broader world, may be enormous. This is... See more

Deciding to be action-oriented, even in the face of uncertainty, is a superpower that is accessible to almost everyone. A willingness to simply say “I see this problem and I am going to take personal responsibility for doing something about it” is incredibly powerful.