For me, our biggest debates about politics and culture come down to two questions about surplus.
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Audacious Dreams: The Key to True Inclusivity
Audacious dreams inspire collective effort and overcome the zero-sum mindset, making true inclusivity possible.
Stale Incumbents Perpetuate Distrust
Low trust levels in America benefit groups like “stale incumbents,” who maintain their positions by fostering distrust and resisting change.
'I'm So Busy': A Signal of Organizational Distrust
‘I’m so busy’ usually means something much different.
We Yearn For The Next Mile of Freedom
Every generation yearns for that next mile toward freedom. So do we.
Children bring out our best
In the company of children, we naturally embrace a kindness often lost among adults. It's this child-inspired grace I believe we can extend to all our interactions.
Small, courageous acts, though less recognized, are crucial in driving transformative change, demonstrating that true influence often resides in the subtlest of behaviors.
Superteams don’t just achieve hard goals, they elevate the performance of teams they collaborate with.
Government CX is a huge opportunity that we should pursue.
The algorithm is simple: Light, spread, teach others to spread.
A good way to assess an organization is by examining the types of problems the majority of their time on.
Taking responsibility and doing the right thing to help others is what defines a leader, celebrity doesn’t.
“I hope you are persuaded that our freedom, from the ever growing reach of rules and institutions, is inextricably linked to goodness. But for that to happen, more and more people have to choose the work to walk the path of goodness, rather than power. And that my sons, starts with us and the choices we make every day of our lives.“
Lots of topics related to “leadership” are made out to be complicated, but they’re actually simple.
Culture change is an example of this phenomenon, it’s mostly just role modeling.
Thinking about how to treat aliens, helps us think about how we treat each other.
The two strategies - providing special attention and treating everyone consistently well - need to be in tension.
I believe that we all feel invisible, to some degree. How we react to that perceived invisibility is an important choice.
There are men that are trying to reimagine what it means to be a man. As in, how to be a different and hopefully better kind of man.
And we are doing this without role models to draw from. We are breaking ground, and it is remarkable.
Once I actually thought about it, I resented sports less and wish the domains I care about - politics, the arts, and religion - took a page from the sports industry.
We all try to avoid unpopularity because it’s terrible. And so we have this big, consequential, choice: do we try to become popular by being aggressive or will be choose some other way?