I don't want there to be an end to ambition, or enthusiasm, or curiosity, or the things that drive me.
The most interesting people are the most interested.
Everything that's ever worked for me has come out of the periphery.
People talk about, 'Oh, yeah, we rank our engineers by how many tokens they're spending.' Well, let's try and rank people by how much output they're actually producing or how much good work is actually getting done.
I'm not obsessed about time. I'm obsessed about energy management. If you have time, but you have no energy, you're not going to accomplish anything anyway.
Risk has become a thing I need to live with. I need to live on the knife's edge all the time.
You want to interact with people who you respect, and you want to be picking their brain all the time.
The more frame of reference you have, the more prepared you are to make difficult decisions because you've seen outcomes.
If we keep doing what we were doing before, we're going to be in serious trouble. Because some new company's going to come along, and they're going to have all these new tools. They're not going to have this legacy of crap from the past, and they're just going to do it the new way.
Anything can be turned into positivity and success, even if it starts in a bad place.
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