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In a single sentence, author Virginia Woolf encourages us to live with a strong foundation — to know our values and be grounded in a strong sense of s

“A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.”

A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.”

"The way I think about coaching is very much how I think about parenting. Your ability to drive change is down to the quality of your relationship, no

I think there should be more art in the world. I think there should be more art in corporations. I think artists in residence have proven to be powerf

“Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents,” he wrote; mass movements “can rise and spread without belief in a god, but n

“The essence of oligarchical rule,” George Orwell wrote in 1984, “is the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the

Entrepreneur Will Ahmed on living a well-rounded life: "Success is being excited to go to work and being excited to come home."

One study looked at artists who started at the bottom and worked their way to successful careers. The researchers identified one factor that was consi

“Some of the squishiest aspects of a job are also the ones that make it most rewarding: the values held by your company and your co-workers. Research

The Imperfectionist: A string of beads

Art critic and writer Robert Hughes reminds us that the closer you get to excellence, the more you notice what is missing: "The greater the artist, t

You should attempt things that are difficult enough to guarantee some early embarrassment, but important enough that long-term regret is unlikely.

The 70% rule: If you’re roughly 70% happy with a piece of writing you’ve produced, you should publish it. If you’re 70% satisfied with a product you’v

you're efficient, you're doing it the wrong way. The right way is the hard way. The show was successful because I micromanaged it- every word, every l

Writer Gertrude Stein's definition of genius: somebody who knows who to be influenced by.

"In the long-run (and often in the short-run), your willpower will never beat your environment. The more disciplined your environment is, the less dis

The late biologist E.O. Wilson said that “the real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-

Because of the 20 years he’s been cultivating his ability in the craft of writing, what he thinks to do is just different from what I would think to d

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that interestingness is the very thing I feel falling away whenever I discover, or begin to suspect, that something I

My process is that I’m constantly reading, listening, and watching things. I do all my reading with physical books, so I have a pen in hand and I’m ma

I was a huge fan of the comic journalist Ronson, and his book Them

Writers serve the public as historians of vibe: they tell us what it feels like to be here, now.

“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late ... look upon it as the quintessence of life ... Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a l

Comedians want to be funny. Great storytellers want to be remembered. For this reason, they deploy laughter strategically.

HOW TO (actually) CHANGE YOUR LIFE THIS YEAR People want to change their lives. They want to change their relationships, their bodies, their income, t

On his deathbed, Darwin himself lamented having failed to keep feeding his mind those greatest nourishments of the empathic imagination — none mightie

Why We Want Robots at Work but Humans in ArtWe hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel

Starting a company is awesome if you want to feel like a piece of shit one day and king of the universe next day and just keep alternating back and fo

"Sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences."

“People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter,

Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills tha

I'm fed up. At this point in my career, I'm tired of writing the most milquetoast, pushover, inoffensive, coddling copy that (seemingly) every brand w

Be dangerous, its careful out there