In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he's tired. Everyone is. That's not the point. The point is to run.

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.

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

Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.

Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.

Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.