The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.

I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.

Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.