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Things I wish I’d done better that day.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 February 2026 source ↗
Wanting to be better: a better actor, a better father.
I am an insomniac, so I often draw and write at night.
I wrote about this in our first quarter client letter, actually, the concept of polycrisis, and I talked about the fact that my belief is that we've all become firefighters.
The fact that there are not enough hours in the day and I’ve taken on too much.
Being present where you are.
If you commit to it, you won’t ever stop learning.
A net positive from my time on Earth.
If people would just follow my rules about how they get around the city.
I was going to a bar with friends and there was a line at the door. I’d been there before and asked the doorman to skip the line. He said, “Oh, I remember you, you were in Almost Famous, weren’t you?” And I said, “Yeah.” And he goes, “Yeah, get back in line.”
Being a parent.
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