The biggest threat facing your team, whether you’re a game developer or a tech founder or a CEO, is not what you think

At no point are these men actually providing leadership. They’re just in the leader class…

Kind of an interesting distinction: there are leaders who provide leadership, and there are leaders who are in the leadership class but do nothing of the sort.

Also, I loved this anecdote from somebody who works in the film industry:

“You get [executive] producers that say, ‘I want to be involved in the artistic process,’ and you’re like—I don’t ask to look at your spreadsheets, man.”

People are like fields: you gotta intentionally let them lie empty producing absolutely nothing for a little while:

You see, one of the most important things, which is true of both plants and people, is that you’ve got to let them lie fallow for a while. A field cannot support the same crop forever. You must intentionally let the field lie empty, producing nothing…

People are the exact same way.