This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.

Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.

My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

If you want to get in shape, go to the #‎ gym every single day, change your clothes and take a shower. If you can do that every single day for a month, pretty soon you'll start doing something while you're there.

Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.