World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.

Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner

I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.

Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do.

Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.

In all cases where doubt crops up, ask yourself, "If I had a gun to my head and had to do it, how would I do it?" It's not as hard as you think.

I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.