The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

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.

Soon is not as good as now.

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work

Defending mediocrity is exhausting.