Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.

If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work

We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.

Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.