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.

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.

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.

Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

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

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.