jenna

We measure length not depth, span not profundity. We want ever more summers rather than summers we know how to notice.

“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”

“Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in... See more

There are investments you can’t make from a structured, nine-to-five, narrowly teleological environment. You have to let your life go fallow sometimes, like a crop rotation giving the land time to bring forth new fertility.

“A simple rule for life and work:

Don’t rush, but don’t wait.

Thoughtful action.”