Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.

Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.

Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely.... Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those devil "distractions," and constantly reassessing which shiny new "system" might make your life suddenly seem more sensible - these are all terrifically useful warning flares that you may be suffering from a deeper, more fundamental problem.... Know in your heart that what you're making or doing matters... First, care. Then, as you'll happily and unavoidably discover, all that "focus" business has a peculiar way of taking care of itself.

I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.

If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.

Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.