Do good work and share it with people.

If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.

The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others.

Write the book you want to read

Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.