Fulfilling work

best editing advice i ever heard was from walter murch when he says when you find the moment you love the most b/c it's the *perfect* summation of everything you want to convey - take it out. & see how everything else around it fills that void in a newer, stronger way

There are places in the incentive landscape where the incentives are aligned with your values, and your job is to find them

It is not that I’m some grumpy person who thinks that some people are great and others aren’t, in some predetermined way—I think you can to a large extent decide which kind you want to be. But if someone else isn’t measuring up, I have no idea how to convince them to do so. So I look for people who have already decided.

best decision making advice I've ever received, courtesy of @marcreisen ... always try to make sure you're running towards something (courage), instead of away from something (fear)

one year of consistency in doing anything hard will 10x your self-belief

Sometimes maybe it’s best, in art and writing, to be as dumb as possible, follow the joy, because at the very least that's real. And there, you’ve taken the first step towards the truth.