It’s time we care less about the speed of our questions and more about the depth of our answers.

You can go fast or deep. But not both at once.

If you could have a high level of one ingredient in your life, what would it be? What do you need a high level of to be successful?

They’re not going to steal your idea; they’re going to steal your hustle.

If someone else launches “your” idea first, it’s because they worked harder, took more risks, had more focus, or dreamed a bit bigger.

The safest way to protect your idea is to run with it. Ideas have legs for that very reason.

If the magic is gone from your work, relationship, or hobby, I bet the work is gone, too.

Rekindle the hustle and you’ll rekindle the magic.

Roots take time, which is why you can’t plant them. They’re the output; not the input.

But once cultivated, they’re unstoppable.

The next time they ask you to take a seat at the table, show up with a tool box and some lumber.

If you wait long enough, you’ll be known for something.

If you work long enough, you’ll be known for something, too.

The worst of them and - gulp - the worst of you. Hopefully you’ll be able to realize when things deviate toward that, months in to the merger and the hard work of alignment.

But you won’t be able to unless you confront it and name it now, before the glow fades.

Naming it now may prevent you from living it later.

If you want to sell something, remove the friction.

If you want to accomplish something, add it.

Something can be a masterpiece and a work in progress at the same time

Only reading tweets from people who agree with you, watching that sitcom for the seventh time, stocking your shelves with white authors - none of this develops the mental dexterity you need.

If it doesn’t lead to flexibility, it leads to atrophy.

Spark matters. Without it, you’ll go nowhere. With it, you can go everywhere.

There is no in between.