You cannot buy your way to share of voice today; you cannot buy attention anymore.

Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.

It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.

A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.