Pritesh

1. Cycle time is a function of how many vertical leaps a discussion has to traverse and how many people are involved at each level. The best way to reduce cycle time is to reduce vertical leaps because it affects both variables. In layman’s terms, this means the most important change to make is to push decision making down. The target isn’t a true

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

As Mumford observed almost a century ago, the world loses its soul when we place too much weight on the ideal of total quantification. By doing so, we stop valuing what we know to be true, but can’t articulate. Rituals lose their significance, possessions lose their meaning, and things are valued only for their apparent utility.

“Beauty is that moment when your mind jumps the curb. Beauty is the instant you sit up and start paying attention. Whatever makes that happen for you can be beautiful. ... But you have to be open to seeing it. Beauty doesn’t find you. You create beauty by looking for it.”

Everything you want is on the other side of “worse first.” But when you can get comfortable being uncomfortable, you can have nearly anything you want in this life.

“When you can get comfortable being uncomfortable, you can have nearly anything you want in this life. ”

If you want to live an asymmetric life: Do hard things.

Everything worth having lives on the other side of effort.

Everything good requires tending. Everything beautiful demands maintenance.

All fraud is a) an abuse of trust causing b) monetary losses for the defrauded and c) monetary gain for the fraudster. You could zero fraud by never trusting anyone in any circumstance.

Gen-Z isn’t just trusting influencers over experts, they’re redefining what “expert” even means. Doctors, journalists, and scientists are dismissed, not because they are wrong, but because they are inconvenient, a straw poll of teens told Fortune . Influencers, on the other hand, are fast, familiar, and on the medium we turn to most: our phones.

"Sometimes we don't know the value of a moment till it becomes a memory."