If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.

The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something when you're here.

If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?

The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.