It’s not time management, it’s obligation elimination.

The business world is obsessed with fighting and winning and dominating and destroying.

Profit means time to think, space to explore. It means being in control of your own destiny and schedule. Without profit, something is always on fire. When companies talk about burn rates, two things are burning: money and people. One you’re burning up, one you’re burning out.

Taking a risk doesn’t have to be reckless.

If you want to know the truth about what you’ve built, you have to ship it.

If the only way you can inspire the troops is by a regimen of exhaustion, it’s time to look for some deeper substance.

Balance is give and take. The typical corporate give-and-take is that life gives and work takes. If it’s easier for work to claim a Sunday than for life to borrow a Thursday, there ain’t no balance.

Our company is a product. We want you to think of yours as one, too. Whether you own it, run it, or “just” work there, it takes everyone involved to make it better.

When you get a bunch of people in a room under the assumption that consensus is the only way out again, you’re in for a war of attrition. Whoever can keep arguing the longest stands the best chance of winning.