Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.

If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

That's why there's lots and lots of kinds of hot sauces, and not so many kinds of mustard. Not because it's hard to make interesting mustard - you could make interesting mustard - but people don't, because no one's obsessed with it, and thus no one tells their friends.

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