If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something to offer that's difficult to get everywhere else. If all you have is the desire to get picked, that's not sufficient.

We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either.

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

Hope without a strategy doesn’t generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won’t follow you if they don’t believe you can get to where you say you’re going.

If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.

Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals.

Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.