Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn't that enough?

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.

Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that's your little place to make your own little utopia.

If you keep thinking about putting on a conference or being a Hollywood screenwriter, and you find the idea terrifies but intrigues you, it's probably a worthy endeavor for you. You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion.

I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.