Jenny Dorsey

There's always the next promotion, the next bonus, the next break, etc. The best time to do the thing you want to do, whatever that is, is now.

I am always looking for an improvement-minded, learning-forward attitude versus someone who has tactical experience.

“Philosophers At Table” (by Raymond Boisvert and Lisa Heldke) is a really excellent blending of those two things, and I really recommend for everyone to at least read a chapter and think through how you've come to the perspectives you have.

Just like how it takes 10,000 hours to master something tactically, I think we need to be exercising our minds similarly.

One particularly important one was being a barista at a fancy members-only club in Manhattan. I learned a lot (even if I didn't realize it at the time) about intersectionality, especially through a class lens, as well as circles of influence, and perhaps most importantly of paternalism. I saw how often people from different social statuses were so very convinced they had the "right" answer to solve the issues of those "less fortunate" than them, and would throw oodles of dollars convincing others, too, that their solutions were correct even if they were not tested or grounded in anything except individual exceptionalism.