SethG

Making a point doesn’t take very long and it can be gratifying in the moment. Making an impact happens over time, and rarely brings the same sort of short-term glee.

Question your own expertise. “I don’t know” is a complete sentence.

the only way to avoid collisions is to find the confidence and empathy to yield… the shortest way to get to where we’re going involves cooperation and the resiliency that comes with empathy and awareness. When we exchange appropriate spacing and yield when we can, connections occur and we can flow forward.

Selfish brutality might work in the short r... See more

Perhaps disenchantment (and the desire for hope) is primarily responsible for the rise in make-believe ideas about how the world works, nonsensical medical interventions and the diminished role of facts in decision making.

When we allow others to manipulate us with their magical stories, though, we’re often setting ourselves up for a collision with ... See more

If scale is the goal, your control over each interaction has to loosen. The job of the leader is to create the conditions for others to raise the standards.

Trusting your team isn’t settling for less. It’s settling for better.

The future doesn’t care

It doesn’t care whether you’re excited or filled with trepidation.

It arrives, regardless.

What an opportunity. Or a threat.

Up to us.

Wishful thinking doesn’t lead to successful skydiving, a working parachute does.

[Cults are cults because they demand a shared story that doesn’t align with a useful, generative, positive version of reality, and so they harm the members and eventually hit the wall.]

Good decisions are calculations based on what you know right now. If the world turns out differently than the data you had indicated, that’s not a bad decision.

A bad decision is one that isn’t based on available facts. It falls into traps like sunk costs or peer pressure. A bad decision is an error in judgment or skill. Good decision makers, when f... See more