It seemed really natural to give more funding to people who could do more with it and to find great deals for people who had money but didn’t have differentiated or interesting portfolios.

you also need to play five-dimensional chess when it comes to how your words and actions will affect others you care about.

Being so deeply truly yourself, as a nonnegotiable, is the answer to everything.

If you close your eyes and visualize the world five, ten, twenty years from now and feel okay with the thing you’re working on not existing, then it’s not urgent. But if you can’t imagine the world without it and want it to exist whether you get to enjoy the benefits of it or not, then not only is it important to you, it is your calling.

You must become not just valuable but undeniably invaluable. And the way to do that is through having more knowledge about your corner of the world than anyone else.

This is something I would recommend to everyone; use the energy that anger gives you to create something new or to get your house in order. Repurpose it. The next time you feel as though everything is broken, as though you have nothing to give, get creative.

You—yes, you—have something to say. You are intelligent, you are unique, you are interesting, you are intriguing. You may be a visionary.

This can be a lonely type of personality.

This to me means that if you’re asking people to be your mentor today and it’s not going well, repurpose that into a positive thing. Become your own mentor for a while. You can always learn more.