I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.

Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.

A book is a souvenir of an idea.

Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.

Products that are remarkable get talked about.