nothing good gets away, as long as you create the space to let it emerge.

the “real work of your life” is searching for the things you want to commit to and that make your life meaningful.

The pathless path is about opening yourself up to this emergence. It’s about growing up and letting go. It’s about realizing that if I claim to care about something, I need to be willing to act, and also be willing to be wrong. I must let go of my ego and my need to be seen as a “successful” person.

Finding the work that matters to us is the real work of our lives.

Create your own culture.

On the pathless path, however, optionality can pay consistent dividends because you are not holding out for another job but leaving space for a little more life.

At many steps along the journey, when I see an opportunity to make more money or pursue something that would require me to scale beyond a “company of one,” I pause.

One of my most important is the mantra “coming alive over getting ahead.”

When you find the work you want to keep doing, what makes it meaningful is that you are drawn to do it for its own sake.