Part of how you can win and deserve to win is to know what’s worth more to you than winning. - Pete Buttigieg

It now feels like an odd assurance to have had to make, since the attack happened hundreds of miles away, but that day it seemed as if we all had to check on each other for injury, as if anyone we cared about might have been harmed that morning just by being in the same world where this had happened.

The more you know about exclusion, the more you think about belonging. We have a crisis of belonging in this country.

But for others, work can only be meaningful if its fundamental purpose is in things that would matter even if no one would pay you to care about them.