The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put it in a drawer, the better off I am. So I structure my writing so that things can sit.

When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I think that's actually cool. Sometimes it's worrisome when you feel they badly misinterpret it, but it just says that they're thinking, and they're bringing their own interpretation to bear on it. [...] That's part of the wonderful thing about putting words into the world, and if I was worried about that, I couldn't be a writer.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.