The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

Data is not useful until it becomes information.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.