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Reflecting on his path at Pinterest, Sciarra shared some advice for founders and go-getters alike: “In the early stages of a product or a company, no one really knows what’s going to work,” Sciarra said via email. “Don’t take ‘no’s’—even ‘no’s’ from really smart, boldfaced names—too seriously.”

*Wirecutter* helped popularize a genre of lucrative recommendation content—where the site gets a cut of every purchase you make after you click on “affiliate” links to Amazon or other partner sites—and spawned a series of copycats. If you’ve ever searched online for the “best” *anything*, there’s a good chance that *Wirecutter*’s DNA was in almost every single article you found.

Here's a simple, actionable framework to get you started:

A multipreneur is someone who creates multiple products per year, with the aim of creating a company that creates companies.

With every decade children have become less free to play, roam, and explore alone or with other children away from adults, less free to occupy public spaces without an adult guard, and less free to have a part-time job where they can demonstrate their capacity for responsible self-control. Among the causes of this change are a large increase in societal fears that children are in danger if not constantly guarded, a large increase in the time that children must spend in school and at schoolwork at home, and a large increase in the societal view that children’s time is best spent in adult-directed school-like activities, such as formal sports and lessons, even when not in school.

millions of men lack access to that kind of power and success — and, downstream, cut loose from a stable identity as patriarchs deserving of respect, they feel demoralized and adrift. The data show it, but so does the general mood: Men find themselves lonely, depressed, anxious and directionless.

The pendulum had swung so far in the opposite direction that my drive had evaporated in thin air. This only led to more self-loathing—I began to view myself as soft, lazy, and a waste of potential. Underneath these subconscious attacks was shame and existential dread. What if I’m going to be insignificant and just fade out?

• Stay firm and unwavering, like you are being deposed and cannot change a single word of your answer every time it’s asked.

When we’re actually engaged in the flow of fascinating work, we don’t think in these terms. The task at hand fills our mind. The task itself is what keeps us up all night, not some extracted story of purpose.

David Lee Roth, the band’s lead singer in those early years, published an autobiography in 1997, titled *Crazy from the Heat,* in which he claimed that, *actually*, the bowl of curated candy had an entirely functional purpose: it was a quick way to see if the venue had actually read the whole contract, line by line.