The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless--most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college.

You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.