Art is the act of navigating without a map.

Personalizatio n wasn't supposed to be a cleverly veiled way to chase prospects around the web, showing them the same spammy ad for the same lame stuff as everyone else sees. No, it is a chance to differentiate at a human scale, to use behavior as the most important clue about what people want and more important, what they need.

Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.

As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.