In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

If you're going to devote the best years of your life to your work, have enough love for yourself and the world around you to work on something that matters to you deeply

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact?

In general, good tools for staying in sync just haven't been built and made available to the world.

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.

When we think of work, we think of work as an act of service. We think of it as an act of love for humanity.

People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it's slow, distracting, and inefficient. It's almost a counterproductivity tool.

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

Know when to email vs. when to meet. Logistics are best handled over a non-immediate communication channel like email or Asana tasks. Detailed status meetings will suck the life out of your day.

When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Stand tall, my friends, when the fool comes around.

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

The most exciting thing happening in business is the rise of vigilante consumers.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.

The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.