At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

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.

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.

Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?

The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution.