--- ## Highlights I operated in monk mode, staying purposefully small, explicitly rejecting anything that looked like a status or attention game and focused on exploring new ways of working and designing my life ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h38jw4g1zscckgdzpfqs7t0w)) One of the most impactful things I did during those years ended up being my attempt to adopt an anti-strategy of rejecting the popular advice to “protect your calendar” and opening up my calendar for curiosity conversations every Wednesday to anyone that wanted to talk with me. God bless Angie for listening to the nearly 400 calls with strangers I had, often repeating the same stories multiple times each Wednesday. But I kept doing them because they were incredibly generative, and the seeds of many ideas that ended up in my book were planted in those calls ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h38jww5q3bhbpcwd5mt77yzt))