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.

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.

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.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity

My house feels like home when you're there.

Against Steve Johnson at the Olympics I was down a couple of times.

As a general matter, if the president wants to withdraw from a treaty, he simply gets to do that. And that's part of the powers of the office.

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

I think anything's possible! Whatever you dream up, the Lord will have for you!

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

Love is perfect kindness.

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.

Yea, I've got a dream too. It involves time-travel and a rifle.