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"You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to me being vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose."

We weren’t designed to be happy. We were designed to try as hard as we can

"Never make a decision when you need to pee."

Leonard Cohen

“A brand is a shared cultural belief about a company or product. It’s not just what I think about a brand that defines that brand to me. It’s also what I think other people think about that brand, and how they’ll judge me for buying it.”

and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?

- charles bukowski

“Confidence comes from preparation.”

— Kobe Bryant

the faster that you do the hard things you want to avoid, the faster you will receive the good things you actually want.

Birds are fed by their parents in their infancy. When the time comes to feed themselves, there can be some confusion when the food does not go into their mouth by itself.

“What you shine light on changes:

• If it’s good, it grows.

• If it’s bad, it tries to hide.

This is the game.”

People are so used to talking about minimum acceptable outcomes in education that they truly have no idea how high variance educational outcomes can/should be.

The top quartile of students can skip grades. The top 2% of students can do an entire multi year curriculum in *weeks*.