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'Til death do us part

A delightful woman I’m married to sent me this column by Drew Magary from Defector. While primarily a sports website, he answers all types of questions from readers—typically in a fun, playful tone. However, in this edition, he received a more serious, challenging question. A reader named...

Have a destination

“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” — Yogi Berra

Our job is to love others

“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.” —Thomas Merton

Life doesn't make sense

Pete Holmes hilariously explains his personal disquiet with science’s explanation of molecules.

Courage vs Stupidity

“Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that’s why life is hard.” —Jeremy Goldberg

Our job in life

“As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has ― or ever will have ― something inside that is unique to all time. It’s our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and...

Piloting time's flight

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” ― Michael Altshuler

Clarity creates trust

“Unclear or incomplete requests, offers, and commitments are often the source of unintended breaches of trust.” —Charles Feltman

The language of dreams

George R.R. Martin, “On Fantasy”. The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real … for a moment at least … that long magic moment before we wake. Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli....

Culture guides success

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” —Peter Drucker

Speak like a human, not a marketer

One of the reasons people don’t donate, shoppers don’t buy, ideas get ignored, and problems don’t get solved… is because when we engage our audience, we try to impress—rather than connect. We try to wow—instead of giving clarity. We talk like marketers, not people. When clarity...

Start at the epicenter

“When you start anything new, there are forces pulling you in a variety of directions. There’s stuff you could do, the stuff you want to do, and the stuff you have to do. The stuff you have to do is where you should begin. Start at the epicenter.” —Jason Fried

Brand values

“To me, marketing is about values. This is a very complicated world, it’s a very noisy world. And we’re not going to get the chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear on what we want them to know about us.” — Steve Jobs

Hold fast to dreams

Dreams Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged birdThat cannot fly. Hold fast to dreamsFor when dreams goLife is a barren fieldFrozen with snow. By Langston Hughes

What lies within us

Last week our team launched a lustrous, new Virtuous website. It was a tremendous labor of love. At times it was heavier on the labor and lighter on the love 🥴 …but I am incredibly delighted with the outcome of our efforts. I am beaming with pride and overflowing with gratitude...