The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.
Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else.
Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.
Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).
Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.
No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.