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

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.

I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

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

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

It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.