Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.

Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time.

When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.