“Assuming that we can and should build our careers and families at exactly the same times underestimates both how challenging each of those roles can be, and how rewarding and enriching they can be if we focus on them.”
“The danger of digesting the news purely via social media — where you can like, repost/retweet, and comment on everything — is that it gives you the feeling of doing something with little actual impact.”
“Things like your website represent you. You aren’t a corporate robot so sounding like one defeats the point of having a website.”
“You’ll have a much better sense of your candidate if you get them out from behind a desk and watch how they behave.”
“The technology and business cases for replacing humans in a wide range of jobs are arriving simultaneously, and it’s important to be able to manage that displacement.”
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” — Steve Jobs
“Your to-do list each day is simply yesterday’s inbox.”
“Author Emily Esfahani Smith kept coming across the same themes when coming up with her theory on what makes life meaningful. Both in her research, in the scientific literature, and in her conversations with regular people, four things kept coming up: belonging, purpose, narrative, and transcendence.”
“What’s happening is the small minority of people that are mad, and angry, and hateful, and dark are much louder than the big percentage of us that are happy, and excited, and feel great. I feel like as somebody who’s full of bright light and happiness that I need to start getting louder about that as well because that’s the only way we’re going to combat it.”
“Americans are more afraid of terrorism than they are of guns, despite the fact that guns are 3,210 times more likely to kill them.”