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I collect definitions of "conservatism," and one of my favorites comes from Corey Robin's book, The Reactionary Mind. Robins asks how it is that we ca

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

If you’re going to be wildly successful, you have to be wildly unusual.  Your life won’t resemble the lives of the people around you. You can learn a

“Everyone wants to be happy now, but it might be better to optimize for being satisfied later. Perhaps the key to happiness is to not worry about bei

Never be worried. Be concerned. When you’re concerned, you can do something about it. Worry is something you do when you’ve already decided you’re

“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.

Poet Mikko Harvey reminds us that the chapters of life go fast and we don't get much time with the people we love: “The number of hours we have toget

“Much of life is in learning to always remain part of the solution rather than allowing ourselves to become part of the problem.”

Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide

What happens on the outside is strategy, what happens on the inside is action.

The core of strategy work is always the same: discovering the critical factors in a situation and designing a way of coordinating and focusing actions

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It’s rare that I meet an exceptional person who is not deeply involved in the details. In fact, I can’t think of one. But I’m sure they exist

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,

“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,

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?

More fiction has been told in Microsoft Excel than in books.

Is the situation actually complicated or is it really quite straightforward, but you’re making it complicated because it requires a lot of courage to

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