The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.

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.

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.