Personhoods are staked on the cards dealt and not the hands played, as if we evolved the opposable thumbs of our agency for nothing. In memoirs and reality shows, across infinite Alexandrian scrolls of social media feeds, the unlucky events of life have become the currency of attention and identification.

Maria Popova

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Griffin moved Citadel's headquarters from Chicago to Miami in 2022. Unlike me, he stayed. But he hasn't given up on New York.

Polina Pompliano

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The best protection against the future is a present worth protecting. Most managers spend their careers preparing for contingencies that never arrive while neglecting the compounding damage of small, daily decisions they consider beneath their attention.

Peter Drucker — Managing for Results

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