Jon Snyder

“And behind the scenes, People Operations aspires to have thought through the experience meticulously, clearing away all the stones in your path so there’s nothing to trip you up.”
― Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. you can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz”
― Michael Bungay Stanier, The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever

“This sounds like a paradox, but a great painting has to be better than it has to be. For example, when Leonardo painted the portrait of Ginevra de Benci in the National Gallery, he put a juniper bush behind her head. In it he carefully painted each individual leaf. Many painters might have thought, this is just something to put in the background to frame her head. No one will look that closely at it.

Not Leonardo. How hard he worked on part of a painting didn't depend at all on how closely he expected anyone to look at it. He was like Michael Jordan. Relentless.

Relentlessness wins because, in the aggregate, unseen details become visible”
― Paul graham

“Who takes a step bereft of love walks to death in shrouds of calculation to lie forever embalmed by money in a mausoleum of things.”
― Dee Hock, Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 1