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.

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.

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.

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

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.

They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots.

...once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.

While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.

The virtuous are among the the weakest and quickest to sin

Technology certainly is going faster. Dynamics on the battlefield are faster. And so, I think you do need, you know, a warrior that is adept in technology, you know, certainly skilled.

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

I just don't see how anyone can hate America. I mean, crap, I live there. What more do you need?