The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done!

Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.

If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.

Ideas that spread win.

Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.

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

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.