@chip-conley
Airbnb mentor to Brian Chesky; founder of Joie de Vivre; Burning Man board member.
Culture is what happens when the boss isn't around. The more distributed your company, the more culture matters — and the harder it is to maintain. Remote work makes this even more critical.
Most people say "I have a soul." I think that's backwards. What if your soul has you? Your job isn't to possess a soul — it's to be a steward of it, a vehicle for it to move through this lifetime.
When you shift your mindset on aging from negative to positive, you gain 7.5 years of additional life. That's more than any other biohack being studied right now. — Becca Levy, Yale
When older brains connect the dots and think broadly, while younger team members are fast and focused, the combination is brilliant. Age diversity isn't just nice to have — it's a cognitive advantage.
Despair = Suffering − Meaning. If suffering is a constant (Buddhism's first noble truth), then more meaning = less despair. Meaning is the variable you can actually change.
Anxiety = Uncertainty × Powerlessness. 98% of anxiety comes from what you don't know and what you can't control. Build a 4-column balance sheet: what you know, don't know, can control, can't control. Putting free-floating anxiety into a structure makes it tangible — and you end up less anxious.