Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky - but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.