The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.

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

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.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else