The essence of trauma is that it is overwhelming, unbelievable, and unbearable. Each patient demands that we suspend our sense of what is normal and accept that we are dealing with a dual reality: the reality of a relatively secure and predictable present that lives side by side with a ruinous, ever-present past.

Lesson 3: It can be time-consuming to keep a high density of talent, but it allows maximum efficiency. So instead of viewing employees as a family, Netflix views employees more like a sports team collectively trying to win a title.

I define love thus: The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.

Life does not need to be linear but it does, as this executive said, need to make sense.

We found that where code deployments are most painful, you’ll find the poorest software delivery performance, organizational performance, and culture.

What actually happened was not a discovery of food production, nor an invention, as we might first assume. There was often not even a conscious choice between food production and hunting-gathering. Instead, as we shall see, food production evolved as a by-product of decisions made without awareness of their consequences.

Reframe your thoughts to reduce suffering.

You must decide at the outset what degree of risk you are willing to assume and what kinds of investments are most suitable to your tax bracket. Finding your sleeping point is one of the most important investment steps you must take.

Cereal crops have the virtues of being fast growing, high in carbohydrates, and yielding up to a ton of edible food per hectare cultivated. As a result, cereals today account for over half of all calories consumed by humans and include five of the modern world’s 12 leading crops (wheat, corn, rice, barley, and sorghum).

The product strategy guides decision-making, prioritization, and resource allocation throughout the product lifecycle.