Stop. I’m not going to take any more input until I’ve made something with what I got.

When you die, no one's going to remember what iPhone you had.

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

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.

Everything you agree to do is other things you can't do

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.

A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.