We're always being told 'find your voice.' When I was younger, I never really knew what this meant. I used to worry a lot about voice, wondering if I had my own. But now I realize that the only way to find your voice is to use it. It's hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.

Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.

Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

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

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.

Do good work and share it with people.

Don't worry about doing research. Just search.