Catering to the passionate is exactly what you should do.

Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else.

The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing . But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are. For now.

The easiest way to thrive as an outlier is to avoid being one. At least among your most treasured peers. Surround yourself with people in at least as much of a hurry, at least as inquisitive, at least as focused as you are.

Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.

Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.