Giving your team cover for their cowardice is foolish. Give them a platform for bravery instead.

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.

The goal isn't to do work and hand it in just before it's due. The goal is to do the work as beautifully as you can, faster than anyone else, so you can do more work.

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity.

It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.

You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. Then you drop it like a pebble into Framework 2, forget about it as much as possible for a fortnight, and do this in a certain rhythm.