Networking that matters is helping people achieve their goals.
It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.
Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.