Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.