The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was… — Umair Haque Copy Share
If you want to live a meaningfully better life, you're going to have to make the dangerous choice to dissent. A life lived meaningfully… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
Follow your passion, we’re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it that breaks your heart about the world? It’s there that you begin to find what moves you. If you want to find your passion, surrender to your heartbreak. Your heartbreak points towards a truer north — and it’s… — Umair Haque Copy Share
The question you must answer isn't how to get ahead. It's how to go somewhere that matters. And have fun along the way. — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours. — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights. — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them. — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
Let’s summarize. What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they do, added… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges. — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
It's at the very moment you want to give up on your dreams that you must expand them until they move you again. — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality. — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
