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

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.

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.