Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things

I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it good and worth sharing. And then, the hard part: deleting that idea when it's just not what it could be. Too often, organizations are good at the first part, but struggle with the second. And so we defend expired business models, support the status quo and have a knee-jerk inclination to preserve what we've got.

No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.

The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

Products that are remarkable get talked about.

Whining isn't a scalable solution.