sari

all serious intellectual work happens on the page, and we shouldn’t pretend otherwise. If you want to contribute to the world of ideas, if you want to entertain and manipulate complex thoughts, you have to read and write.

Combining professional and personal projects: you remove the frontier between the personal and professional worlds and you decide how you want to allocate you time.

Understand that people are already turning to brands to fulfill their need for connection

We’ve recreated the healthcare system by basically moving to a system of 3rd party payer, where people basically don’t have to pay for it themselves, because there's so many subsidies directly and indirectly built into the system that it breaks down all accountability from consumers.

I find one meeting can sometimes affect a whole day. A meeting commonly blows at least half a day, by breaking up a morning or afternoon. But in addition there's sometimes a cascading effect. If I know the afternoon is going to be broken up, I'm slightly less likely to start something ambitious in the morning.

"My mind begins to seem like a video game: I can either play it intelligently, learning more in each round, or I can be killed in the same spot by the same monster, again and again."

The best ads ask no one to buy. That is useless. Often they do not quote a price. They do not say that dealers handle the product. The ads are based entirely on service. They offer wanted information