The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics

The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.

When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.

The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.

Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.

If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?

We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.