An emotional response to a situation is the single greatest barrier to power, a mistake that will cost you a lot more than any temporary satisfaction you might gain by expressing your feelings.

— Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

Often, the most transcendent, transformative experiences, are about things you aren’t particularly enjoying, like the burn in your lungs after a run or the blisters on your feet after a long hike.

— Brennen Reece, Productivity for the Depressive Polymath

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that ditching your monolith is the solution to all your problems. Monoliths can and do scale. Sometimes they are more expensive to scale, but the notion that it is impossible to scale monoliths is false.

— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire

Several eminent climate scientists, having crunched the numbers, warn that “there is no credible path to climate stabilization that does not include a substantial role for nuclear power.”

— Steven Pinker, Rationality

What will make or break your career, especially at a company like Google, is how well you collaborate with others.

— Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google