Paras Doshi

“You have to hold just a few things dear, because that’s what love is. Particular. Specific.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“Your role as a manager is not to do the work yourself, even if you are the best at it, because that will only take you so far. Your role is to improve the purpose, people, and process of your team to get as high a multiplier effect on your collective outcome as you can.”
― Julie Zhuo, The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

“Some professionals say you need to have a praise-to-criticism ratio of 3:1, 5:1, or even 7:1. Others advocate the “feedback sandwich”—opening and closing with praise, sticking some criticism in between. I think venture capitalist Ben Horowitz got it right when he called this approach the “shit sandwich.” Horowitz suggests that such a technique might work with less-experienced people, but I’ve found the average child sees through it just as clearly as an executive does.”
― Kim Malone Scott, Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

“It takes as little as 150 minutes of exercise per week to improve blood glucose tolerance, reduce body fat and the risk to all possible lifestyle diseases that come with obesity.”
― Rujuta Diwekar, Don't Lose Out, Work Out!