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So if your career offers you the choice of being a starving saint or a wealthy sinner, consider being a middle-class mensch instead. You may not be he
When I worked at Yahoo!, our team needed another engineering manager. We didn’t run a hiring process, or even do interviews. Instead, our Director bro
Nothing great was ever built by someone who had to be talked into building it.
More fiction has been told in Microsoft Excel than in books.
When we lack real problems, we create imaginary ones; when we lack meaningful work, we perfect the unimportant.
“The camera never lies... but you can take a thousand different pictures of the same scene.”
If you think technology will solve your problem, you don’t understand your problem and you don’t understand technology.
“One easy way to show you care about others is to ask them questions about their life. What are they excited about? What are they working on?
Prepare as if this is your only opportunity, and perform as if nothing can go wrong.
“Observation is a skill, and like any skill, it can be trained and honed. Even if you're not a negative person, you may be skilled at noticing negati
Most beliefs are soft until challenged. When you tell someone they’re wrong, the belief hardens. Instead of trying to convince someone they’re wrong,
Effort is a choice. If it’s important to you, there is no excuse for someone putting in more effort than you.
So if your career offers you the choice of being a starving saint or a wealthy sinner, consider being a middle-class mensch instead. You may not be he
“Challenge yourself when life is easy, so you'll be ready when life is hard.”
Pressure feels like a threat, but it’s not. You feel pressure when your decisions matter, and people depend on you. It can feel uncomfortable at ti
Who do you secretly envy—and what does that reveal about what you truly value?
What is something you deeply believe but rarely live out?
Which single expense in your life delivers the least happiness per dollar and which delivers the most happiness per dollar?
What is the most important conversation you are currently postponing?
