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Fund the life you need before you risk it for the life you want.

One: You have to train yourself to notice things. It's not 100% natural at first – it certainly wasn’t for me – but raising those antennae is a very worthwhile thing to do. And it snowballs: once I got started taking notes, I ended up taking more and more of them.

Two: Be very liberal about what you keep. If you're going through your notes, cross ou

you’re ever stuck, find your own “in case of emergency” questions. Here are some examples: Listening to you, I can see you work hard. I have to pause and ask: what’s your motivation? Before we continue, I want to check in: how is this interview going for you? I hate to switch gears, but with so little time together, I have to ask you about … And if

DS: Here’s my simple framework for judging ideas:

1. Potential: If it worked, how big could it be?




2. Probability: What are the chances it’ll work?




3. Proximity: How close is this to things I care about, know about, or am passionate about?

The weights will be different based on your situation. For example, early in my career, “probability” was important. I hadn

There is a great lesson here for us. Sometimes God will deal with you directly, strengthening your faith alone in the wee hours of the morning when everyone else is asleep. But most of the time (we might say ten-elevenths of the time) God strengthens our faith through another person.

God sends us some Simon Peter who brings just the word of grace we

Work is not some post-fall aberration. Work is a blessing (1:28). Work is a gift. And work is intrinsic to the human creature because it is intrinsic to the Creator himself.

God works, and it follows that because we are made in his image (Genesis 1:26-27), we work too.

You’ll get 10x better results by elevating good behavior rather than punishing bad behavior, especially in children and animals.

R. C. Sproul said it this way in his book, The Holiness of God:

“When we understand the character of God, when we grasp something of His holiness, then we begin to understand the radical character of our sin and helplessness. Helpless sinners can survive only by grace. Our strength is futile in itself; we are spiritually impotent without the assista