New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.

I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.

What evidence would you need to see to change your mind about this?

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.