Resilience is not how you endure, it's how you recharge.
— Michelle Gielan“I would love to say that we knew all the answers in advance, but the truth is that we discovered our product and opportunity, rather than planning for it. We started a company to build a massively multiplayer game, and in the process, it very quickly became apparent to us what the utility of Slack was as we used a prototype to collaborate internally.”— Stewart Butterfield
Co-Founder of Slack, Former CEO & Creator of Flickr
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Wellbeing
A growing archive of 3,000+ moments, drawn from every interview.
It doesn't ask, was today good? It asks, what was good in today?
— Michelle GielanYou need to be able to hold two truths at the same time. Yes, this is difficult, and there's something we can do here. Yes, I don't know how the story ends, and I believe that my behaviour matters in this moment.
— Michelle GielanToxic positivity aims to edit out the problem.
— Michelle GielanIt is a feeling of intense loneliness, isolation and helplessness that can only be resolved by negative habits which you believe will take away the pain, but which don't.
— Ian ProudNot only are incomes being lost — a sense of community, a sense of pride, a sense of belonging has also been lost. Those things clearly matter for human wellbeing. We’re just not very good at measuring them.
— Andrés VelascoEconomic growth is a means. The goal must be something else. It must be shared prosperity. It must be happier lives. It must be communities in which we all feel that we belong. It must be mutual respect. Those are ends.
— Andrés Velasco