THE LAW OF SOLID GROUND - Leadership is builds upon foundations of trust

Emotion sharing is thus a bit like social glue, maintaining and strengthening relationships.

If we can focus on making clear what parts of our day are within our control and what parts are not, we will not only be happier, we will have a distinct advantage over other people who fail to realize they are fighting an unwinnable battle.

Every employee of a startup, including founders and each of the company’s executives, must sign a Proprietary Inventions and Assignment Agreement to protect the startup’s rights to its intellectual property.

Success does not breed success, researchers conclude; success breeds failure. It is failure that breeds success.

TDD encourages tactical programming through its emphasis on getting specific features working instead of finding the right design, which is better achieved by considering the units of development as abstractions instead of features.

We do not disapprove of a chair because it cannot be used to boil water’: Landau, Finding Meaning in an Imperfect W orld, 39.

Think of psychedelics as temporarily flattening the snow. The deeply worn trails disappear, and suddenly the sled can go in other directions, exploring new landscapes and, literally, creating new pathways.

Diversity in teams is correlated with organizational performance.

I realized that my stewardship to my children involved more than just providing for their physical, financial and emotional needs. It also involved providing healthy role models on which they could pattern their lives.