linda

your desire for status is inversely correlated with the degree of unconditional love you receive in your day-to-day real life.

If you want people’s respect, you have to have something real to offer them. Get really good at a specific skill. Be a genuinely kind person. Learn new things and become more interesting. Work on yourself rather than trying to navigate social ladders.

At its core, sensemaking is the art of regulating attention. This is a fancier way of saying that you must know what to ignore . And then you must have the discipline of mind to ignore those things, so that you may focus only on things that will help you.

"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, not your hierarchy.

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"When your kids are two years old, you say, 'Don't do that!' You're a benevolent dictator. But you have to be careful because when they're 25, you have very little authority over

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to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

If you produce ideas, don’t let the validated crowd out the emerging. If you curate ideas, don’t be beholden to consensus and algorithms. And if you consume ideas, gravitate toward what you don’t yet understand instead of going all-in on the ones you already do. Because otherwise — it’s sequels all the way down.

You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.

Newness is harder to understand instantly, harder to market, and harder to price.