When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.
It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.
Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.
Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.
Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)
We found the future, like birds fly into windows.