Eat breakfast. Do some push-ups. Go for long walks. Get plenty of sleep.
So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.
Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.
The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us – we start editing ideas before we have them.
The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.
Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.
It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn’t online, it doesn’t exist.
Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.
You’re ready. Start making stuff.
If you want fans, you have to be a fan first.
Copying is about reverse-engineering.
Become a documentarian of what you do.
When people give advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.
Do good work and share it with people.
Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
Don’t think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.
Inertia is the death of creativity.
Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.
If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.
In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.