Dialectic

"James Dyson's biography does the best job of this. It's like yeah, it's difficult but it feels so good. It's the best feeling in the world."

"Sam Walton had a great line in his biography. He's like, 'Listen, I didn't push my kids too hard cuz I understood that I was a fairly overactive fellow.'"

"He's talking about The Timeless Way of Building and A Pattern Language."

"He's talking about The Timeless Way of Building and A Pattern Language."

"Then there are other things, like I watched Casablanca for the first time recently, and there wasn't much effort required."

"In the film You've Got Mail, Joe—Tom Hanks's character—is telling Meg Ryan's character... 'Kathleen, that it isn't personal.'"

"There's a writer I love, Benjamin Labatut, who wrote a book called When We Cease to Understand the World."

"Notion is a tool that allows you to have leverage across the work, ideas, and writing that are most important to doing what you do. You can check out Notion at notion.com/dialectic"