I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.

Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

No one is as smart as all of us.