Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

“Who would you die for? What ideas would you die for?

“The Who book [by Geoff Smart, Randy Street] is a condensed version of Topgrading, and I learned of it at Mint, where the founder was using it.”

Neal Stephenson, who’s penned several of my all-time favorites, including Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon

“All those artists and writers who bemoan how hard the work is, and oh, how tedious the creative process, and oh, what a tortured genius they are. Don’t buy into it…. As if difficulty and struggle and torture somehow confer seriousness upon your chosen work. Doing great work simply because you love it, sounds, in our culture, somehow flimsy, and th

Tara’s first book, Radical Acceptance,

David Brooks, “The Moral Bucket List.” Nir Eyal, Hooked. Anything by Kevin Kelly, most recently The Inevitable

“Why put in the effort to explain why it isn’t a fit, if they haven’t done the homework to determine if it is a fit?

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• Who do you think of when you hear the word “successful”? “I just really want people to remember that they’re capable of doing everything that the people they admire are doing. Maybe not everything, but—don’t be so impressed