Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else.

If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse.

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.

The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.