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

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

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.

History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success.

People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.

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

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