It's better to be sleep deprived but not stressed than the other way around. Stress is way more costly than discomfort.

All paintings at the Met have an ornate golden frame. The Art is great, but so is "the packaging". If you're a great performer, you want to be at Carnegie Hall not a provincial stage. True greatness lies in skillfulness alongside commanding the stage that spotlights it.

"Patients recovering from surgery in rooms that looked out on trees went home sooner and needed fewer strong painkillers than those whose window faced a brick wall." socialinnovationlabs.substac…

Doing things that don't scale hurts terribly. The moment you start enjoying one of them, you need to move to the new one that is not enjoyable at all.

Prioritization is supposed to hurt

One fully committed is in no need of encouragement.

Please, write to your Heroes.

Fight for it, don't settle. In small and big things. No details is left unnoticed in the Universe.

99% of photographers are documentarians, not artists. The job of the photographer is to make the reality look more beautiful than it really is.