The table stakes for being in technology are no longer just about great products. They're about great values.

Memory is a kind of accomplishment, a sort of renewal even.

Every mental state corresponds to a specific brain state.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

"Writing about the past is a way of making sense of the present and imagining a different future."

生活其实很简单，但我们坚持把它复杂化。