One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.