We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.

If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more

I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.

Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.

The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.