Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.

Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.

I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.

Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.

The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.