Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.

Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.

Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

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.