Networking that matters is helping people achieve their goals.

How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.

It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.

Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).