Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficult, the most crowded... I'm a top 1,000 blogger, not a top 100 blogger, and I get hundreds of pitches by email every week. Most of them I don't even see because my assistant declines them.

Happiness has a very short half-life.

Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.

Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.