Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.

I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.

Great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.

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

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.