Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

Most people doubt online meeting scan work, but they somehow overlook that most in person meetings don't work either.

The temptation many creative people I know have is to strive for popularity. To make, do, and say things that other people like in the hopes of pleasing them. This motivation is nice. And sometimes the end result is good. But often what happens in trying so hard to please other people, especially many other people, the result is mediocre.

People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.

Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution.