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I’m convinced that storytelling will be the most differentiating business skill of the 21st century.

In this context, knowledge and judgement and taste are valuable. We trust curators because we believe that they spent time and effort in developing their expertise. This belief seeped from the art world into the aspirational economy, with the new breed of aspirants looking to share their taste and turn their social and cultural capital into the eco... See more

Instead of building a community around a business, a company should strive to create new business models around its community. Why place community before market? Because if you focus on making an insanely good community, the profits will follow. I’m not saying you should throw away your GTM plan; on the contrary. Instead, it would be best to have a... See more

This will always be your struggle whether you are twenty-one or fifty-one. I know this from experience. When I quit the New York Times to be a full-time mother, the voices of the world said that I was nuts. When I quit it again to be a full-time novelist, they said I was nuts again. But I am not nuts. I am happy. I am successful on my own terms. Be... See more

Instead of "getting a job" you want to design a life where you're doing what you enjoy and earning a living.

Jeff Bezos says that if Amazon has a good quarter it’s because of work they did 3, 4, 5 years ago—not because they did a good job that quarter