Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.

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.

Make the time to be scared of more interesting things.

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.

Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their faith or their sexuality. It’s a pointless exercise that can never be anything but acrimonious and will only highlight unnecessary amounts of difference about things that ultimately don’t really matter. Buy the steak you like, worship the god you love, neck with the people that you treasure and don’t worry about the numbers.

Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.

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