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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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