Harley Finkelstein

It's also the reason why I'm very particular about who I spend my time with, because I do believe that...

There are genuinely energy vampires and energy catalysts in humans.

There's also energy vampires and energy catalysts even in geographies.

I mean, you know, I moved to Montreal two years ago.

Partially was Montreal was this place that Lindsay and I kept finding was this energy catalyst for us.

When we would come into the city, we'd spend time here, something changed in our brains.

And I think you have to be deliberate about those things.

Like, what do you want to be good at?

What do you want to spend your time on?

Who do you want to spend your time with?

Where do you want to spend your time from a geographic perspective?

And I think if you try to do all of it all the time, you end up being very mediocre.

It's especially hard, especially if there's an element of things that give you joy.

I don't think you can live... I don't think if you use the lens in your life of how you do anything is how you do everything, you have to be very careful about...

like how you do things.

Because if you want to do everything well or you want to do everything with intentionality, you just have to be selective.

I don't know anyone who is great at everything.

The mentors in my life, the role models in my life, they tend to be spiky objects.

Shopify is a team of spiky objects.

We often joke about it as like the island of misfit toys.