“There’s the sense that we should arrive fashionably late and with a posse of friends, but in fact, the very best time to get there is right when the party starts — before everyone is ensconced in conversations and you find yourself in the position of having to work your way into established groups.”
The problem with coffee date brain picking is that the advice you give (along with the time spent giving it) is lost into the ether. Helping one person at a time — for free — isn’t terribly scalable. But what if the advice you give one person could help two, ten, hundreds, or even thousands of people…without the impossible effort of sit down to coffee with each individual person?”
“Spielberg snuck onto soundstages and sat in editing rooms, soaking up as much information as he could. Some days he’d smuggle an extra suit in his briefcase, sleep overnight in an office, and change into the fresh clothes the next morning and walk back onto the lot.”
“Pressure is the result of limitations we put on ourselves to produce outcomes we don’t control. When we focus on the outcome, we begin to expect things out of our control, which sets us up for failure.”
“Start slow. It’s better to win on one platform than to lose on ten.”
“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” — Coretta Scott King
“The quality of the attention we received from our primary caregivers can affect the intimacy and sustainability of our adult social connections — which are a major determinant of wellbeing, physical health and even life expectancy.”
“Every Pixar movie has the exact same story structure that you can identify in six sentences.”
“Committing to writing a list of influences and inspirations can help us clarify our pasts and show us potential paths for the future.”
“The purpose of the 5 whys isn’t to place blame, but rather to uncover the root cause of why something unexpected occurred. Additionally, it helps a team create small, incremental steps so that the same issue doesn’t happen again.”