This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all.

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.

It's only through effort that we learn what an idea actually is, and if our passion for it will last or fade. There is no shame in failure - all makers fail. But it's hard to respect someone who never tries, even once, to do something good that's always on their mind. If you're worried about how good your idea is, you're worrying about the wrong thing.

It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say.

Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want to write, even though they find crafting sentences and paragraphs unpleasant. They hope there is a way to write without writing. I can tell you with certainty there isn’t one.