Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.

Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.

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

Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.