The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.