this path

Accepting the job offer involved a process of looking back at the last few years of my work and seeing, for the first time, a path that I hadn't realized I was on. Anything can seem like a path when you look back and make it one, but it was a surprising lesson to me that sometimes you're already, maybe unknowingly, cultivating the experiences that... See more

I wish I had been told earlier that as long as you truly believe in yourself, everything else will fall into place—the right people will support you, and the right opportunities will come your way. I believe confidence and conviction in your vision attract the energy and connections needed to make it a reality.

“You didn’t represent failure. You represented confusion. Most people would pick a side. Either be a writer and hang out with the writers, if you can, or, if you can’t, then leave the place where the writers are and make common cause with the workers and only the workers. Laugh about the guests and not care about anything else while you’re on the... See more

Because I got to experience what it was like to stand my ground and do what I knew needed to be done, and see how good the outcome was.

you’ve got to find a way to be inspired by your life.

You don’t know a thing about the person you’ll turn out to be in a few years. That’s what’s so incredible: When you’re fully alive, you’re constantly surprised. Joy springs from surprise, from uncertainty, from surrender. Romance and trust and deep communion are always left to chance. Dare to cultivate curiosity instead of fear and control. Dare to... See more

If that sounds awkward – and inefficient – it was all part of the plan: they were discovering what could work, even in such adverse conditions, and cutting no corners.

Most people would never consider a solution like that, but sometimes, that is what high agency looks like.

One where achievement isn’t the default, and where smallness isn’t a failure to grow, but a new way to define what greatness really looks like.