Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

Keep starting until you finish.

People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.

To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.

I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.