Kyle Steinike

When we lack real problems, we create imaginary ones; when we lack meaningful work, we perfect the unimportant.

It’s more advantageous to structure decisions to be easily reversible than to take too much time trying to make the perfect choice.

“The key lesson here is that if we are to intervene, we need a solid idea of not only the benefits of our interventions but also the harm we may cause—the second and subsequent order consequences. Otherwise, how will we know when, despite our best intentions, we cause more harm than we do good?”

“If you’re 37... Instead of regretting that you can’t wake up age 18 again, pretend to yourself that you’re 90 and you’ve woken up age 37 again, and that you get to magically, wonderfully have the next 50 years again.”

When you woke up this morning, did you expect today to have many joys or many frustrations?