The rules are now clear: no one is going to inform you, but it's easier than ever to inform yourself.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

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.

No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.

That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread.

If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.