Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that.

Don't worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead.

The scalable, profitable strategy is to change the game, not to become the most average.

Don’t try to please everyone. There are countless people who don’t want one, haven’t heard of one or actively hate it. So what?

It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.

I don't care how many friends you have on Facebook or how many followers you have on Twitter. Those are not actual friends or truly followers. I care about how many people will miss you if you're not back here again tomorrow.

You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations.