Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable.

Who gets to decide what you want?

When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.