Robin Good

There is no room for diverse futures in the boardroom when all they’re concerned with is hitting the next quarter’s KPIs.

Friends are better than money. Almost anything that money can do, friends can do better. In so many ways, a friend with a boat is better than owning a boat.

"The most effective thought leadership strategy is contrarian specificity: take a clear, defensible position that challenges conventional wisdom in your domain, then back it with original frameworks, data, or lived experience others can't replicate.

Most thought leaders fail by being either too agreeable (becoming background noise) or contrarian... See more

less noise, more depth. Less content, more context.

Because in a world where everything is available, the real value is knowing what actually matters.

Good taste is accumulated through wide knowledge.

To understand is to enter into a relationship with people, with things, with ideas. AI can imitate the language of relationships, but it stands outside of them. Our task is to keep knowledge alive by remaining in conversation with the world that gives it meaning.

There is an extreme kind of philosophical skepticism – dating back to the ancient Greek Pyrrho – that there is no such thing as “truth” or the answer. We have only interpretations.