The most important actions are never comfortable.

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

Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.

People feel personally slighted if you don't respond to them in 30 seconds and treat email as instant messenger.

Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.

Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.

Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run.