The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.

A good game gives us meaningful accomplishment - clear achievement that we don't necessarily get from real life. In a game, you've beaten level four, the boss monster is dead, you have a badge, and now you have a super laser sword. Real life isn't like that, right?

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

You don't want the office to be a completely relaxing place. You want it to be a vibrant place.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.

People who are in abusive relationships often don't realise it, but it slowly seems to build until you're trapped.

It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.

Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.