Just because you're adequately good at something doesn't mean that's what you should do.

if you are an individual employed by a corporation or an institution, he said, then the odds are leveraged against you. The larger party always wins. It can't see you, but it can crush you. And if that's the working world, then I don't want to be a part of it.

If the walls weren't made of glass, I would have lain down on it to see how it felt. Maybe that's what he did. Maybe that's what power would feel like, napping publicly while everyone in the office scurries on with their tasks around you.

You have to know that I'm leaving because of New York, not you. You know why I don't want to live here. I don't want to hustle 24/7 just to make rent.