If you can't sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

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.

Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

Good marketers tell a story.

Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish.