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.

You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.

Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.

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

Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.

Everyone we interact with is changed forever. The only questions are: How will they be different (and how different will they be), and how will we be different (and how different will we be) as a result?

If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.