People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.

The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one.

Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.