What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care.

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.

That's your opportunity - to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread.

Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping.

Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.