If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.

While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.

You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.

To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.

We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again.