Raise $500 for a thing you care about because you actually get the experience of taking an idea and actually doing it. There are fewer and fewer excuses not to.
The first version of everything is janky.
Nothing will replace good journalism.
It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.
If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
We all have great ideas. No one ever says, "I've got this terrible idea."