It’s so generous when an author puts the story ahead of themselves.

I need to write it. And say it, out loud.

Growing technology requires growing morality. 

Murder doesn’t make sense.  

As much as I’ve had awful moments, I’ve been part of moments with extraordinary humanity at work. 

When kids are around a house has the sounds of life.

We can do this fellas. We can raise our sons to be good men.

An exercise to clarify your job, why it matters, and how it fits into the big picture of the company and the customer’s life.  

But for me it’s been so worth it. Because after stopping, and wallowing in my own thoughts I learned to smell. And I began to see that there are so many roses, if only we stop to smell them.

It’s obvious that as a manager I can treat my team with respect and work hard to be a better, more moral manager so that I roll less toxicity down hill.

What was an epiphany for me is that I also have at least a little ability to do that as a customer and investor. But that requires a sacrifice from me - I have to let some things slide.

The best I’ve come up with so far are truth, sacrifice, and unconditional love.

 As I reflect on it, treasured moments are not so rare, perhaps. The challenge for me, as for all yogis and peace seekers, is to look for and find that treasure in the moment we are in now.

Paradoxically, if we believed life were meaningless, maybe that opens a door for a purer, nobler, more virtuous way to live.

Is love really love unless it’s unconditional?

Leadership is akin to chemotherapy to me. It attacks the cancer of organizational alignment, but is toxic because it breeds the conditions for corruption to occur.

One of my favorite recent thought experiments is imagining what an organization would have to do to get increasing returns to productivity as company size increases instead.

Nobody ever comments about what our generation, millennials, are capable of. And I don’t think we were destined to save the world, but I think we are capable of something equally important.