My first collection

If you’re lucky, age happens, and when the thought drifts by that I could inject this or lift that, I think of Joan Rivers who said, “You can either look old or weird.” There’s no third option.

The voice of Resistance is cunning enough to keep us from raising our hand. It may ask "who are you to lead?" or "what if no one shows up" or "are you even allowed to do that" or any of the hundreds of quips it has to stop us.

The alternative is to leap before you are ready, embrace the identity of someone who creates generous tension with intent

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
Albert Einstein

I also tend to read Mumford’s claim through Ivan Illich’s concept of thresholds. Illich invited us to evaluate technologies and institutions by identifying relevant thresholds, which, when crossed, rendered the technology or institution counterproductive. This means that rather than declare a technology or institution either good or bad by its

Yvon Chouinard on not forcing it:

“A serious surfer doesn’t plan to go surfing next Tuesday at 2 o’clock. You go surfing when there are waves and wind and the tide is right.”

What’s one thing today that you’re doing, or that you are focused on for your life, that you believe your future self will thank you for?

Don’t wait until you’re not afraid to open doors.

Open doors until you’re not afraid.

Instead of avoiding metrics, organizations should use multiple balanced metrics, combine them with qualitative measures, and maintain healthy skepticism.

Effective metric use requires continuous evaluation, adaptation to changing circumstances, and fostering a culture that questions and improves metrics.

Metrics are like “powerful drugs” — dangerous