mantras

“The feeling of progress is one of the best feelings of all. This is true even when progress is small.”

3-2-1: On progress, friendship, and how to improve your writing

Talking or writing about the things you're interested in is a good way to generate new ideas. When you try to put ideas into words, a missing idea creates a sort of vacuum that draws it out of you. Indeed, there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.

How to Do Great Work

I like the term generalist, it’s one of the best descriptions of my career(s) and also a good representation of something I see as vital: being able to understand different domains and translate between them.

Patrick Tanguay • Generalists

Vulnerability without boundaries is not vulnerability. It might be fear or anxiety. We have to think about why we’re sharing and, equally important, with whom. What are their roles? What is our role? Is this sharing productive and appropriate?”

Brené Brown • Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

Generosity is not timidity, empathy or availability

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

― Simone Weil

Carissa Potter • How to feel alive again.

Someone who is secure is also consistent: they’re the same person in front of everyone because they’re comfortable being authentic. They don’t have to change masks between people because they don’t feel the need to impress others by pretending to be someone they’re not.

Sherry

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Almost everything that is meaningful, beautiful, life-affirming, empowering, transformational, true—it can’t be reached by shortcuts. But what we can do is make the longcuts walkable, put out footbridges and stairs, and a table where the ocean comes into view.

On Shortcuts and Longcuts