I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

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.

Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.

You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.

The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.