Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

Today my obsession for the very best pens (Muji 0.38mm gel pens and Pilot Juice Up 0.4 mm gel pens) and notebooks (Leuchtturm1917 Medium Hardcover)

Leadership on the Line by Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky,

he had his employees rate new candidates on a 1–10 scale. The only stipulation was they couldn’t choose 7. It immediately dawned on me how many invitations I was receiving that I would rate as a 7—speeches, weddings, coffees, even dates. If I thought something was a 7, there was a good chance I felt obligated to do it. But if I have to decide betwe

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” –NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI

When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? What questions do you ask yourself? I step back … and slow down … and ask the five whys. And when I am done, I also ask if I am afraid of something but too afraid to admit it.

An Invitation to the Great Game: A Parable of Love, Magic, and Everyday Miracles, in which I articulate my three guiding rules of life.

“Lose an hour in the morning, chase it all day.”—a Yiddish saying, author unknown

After a Design Matters interview with the great writer Dani Shapiro, we started to talk about the role of confidence in success. She went on to state that she felt that confidence was highly overrated. I was instantly intrigued. She explained that she felt that most overly confident people were really annoying. And the most confident people were us

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