Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.

Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.

Marketing management is now tribal leadership.

All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.

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

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.