Great interview question: Tell me about a time you solved a problem with extreme attention to detail? It’s hard to lie about extreme attention to det… - George Mack

Alive mode = When you make choices based off what makes you feel the most alive, regardless of the status of the choice.

Dead mode = When you make choices based off status and sacrifice what makes you feel the most alive behind the eyes.

The best writing advice I’ve found is to read your writing on Kindle. When I read my work in Google docs, I think I’m a genius and I need to say more. When I read my work on Kindle, I think I’m an idiot and need to say less.

The strangest paradox I've seen in highly creative people is how uncreative their creative process is. Simply saying: "I will sit down and come up with twenty bad ideas every day this year" often beats any fancy note-taking system or binging LSD waiting for ideas to happen.