The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.

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

If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.

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