Pritesh

Class is an interconnected set of culture, scripted behaviors, and the advantages and disadvantages that attach to them.

“Inspiration comes on the twenty-fifth attempt, not the first. If you want to make something excellent, don’t wait for a brilliant idea to strike. Create twenty-five of what you need and one will be great. Inspiration reveals itself after you get the average ideas out of the way, not before you take the first step.”

The single most important job of a leader — even if they’re mediocre at everything else — is to make decisions, and to know when and where those decisions need to be made.

All the energy we spend trying to fix what’s broken comes at the expense of making what already works unstoppable.

“I don’t know” is not an admission of ignorance. It’s an expression of intellectual humility.

“I was wrong” is not a confession of failure. It’s a display of intellectual integrity.

“I don’t understand” is not a sign of stupidity. It’s a catalyst for intellectual curiosity.

A vision springs, not from a careful understanding of a context, but from a fantasy: if you could just make it into another context your problems will go away.

But debts, much like people, only age in one direction. Unlike people, debts universally decline in value as they age.