both are true

“Life is not like formula fiction. The villain has a heart, and the hero has great flaws.”

— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

The worst kind of company is usually not the one where there's too much real work to do, but the kind where there's not enough. It's in this realm the real monsters appear. Without enough real problems to go around, humans are prone to invent fictitious and dreadful ones.

This is the root of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs analysis. That a shocking pe

Two conflicting perspectives I’m trying to reconcile:

Having a “north star” mission is critical.

Difference between success and failure on everything I've worked on has always been in persisting and getting unsexy details right.

both are true: I hold a lot of conflicting beliefs, and have become happier the longer I’ve sat with them and realized that internal conflicts are a fact of life.

I like to think that I'm both hip and square at the same time, that these two terms aren't irreconcilable, that, in fact, the book is a kind of a reconciliation of those two worlds of thought. So I think it's possible to be a square motorcycle mechanic at the same time a groovy rider, and that this isn't a conflict for anybody. Or it's possible to