David Senra

Like when I find something new and interesting, like I just cannot get enough.

But very often that means I'm billy-goating up ahead of the pack.

And forgetting like, oh, wait, I need to like, there's all these people that I want to do this with.

I don't want to just do this alone.

So that's been a big lesson for me that has taken a while to learn.

But yet another thing to credit Sam with.

The joy of that thing and that leader,

you have all these great maxims, my favorite maxim, pretty much the only one we use in my business with my team is the reward for great work is more work.

And I find that saying that maximum to the right person, like the kind of person I wanna spend time with, their eyes go wide and they understand it immediately that the reward for great work is not money, power, fame.

It is the privilege to get to do more of this thing that I love doing.

The problem with coming up with like good terms for this stuff, we use this term life's work, is that immediately everyone else just starts saying it and it ceases to have any meaning because like now every goddamn meeting I'm in, like I'm doing my life's work.

And my experience is that almost nobody is doing their life's work.

Even a lot of great founders, I would say it's not their life's work.

I love the fact that Thomas Jefferson on his tombstone has three things that describe his life.

But one of them is not that he was the president of the United States.

He was, you know, author of the Declaration of Independence, founder of the University of Virginia.

Not...

president.

And I think that's so interesting.

And so I think a lot about like, is this thing this person is doing going to be on their tombstone?