The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

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.

To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.

What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?

Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.