The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.
The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.
This might end up in crying. If you’re not prepared to cry about it, I’m not sure you’re making art. And if you’re not prepared to dance in anticipation, you’re definitely not making art.
You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.
You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.
The resistance is not something to be avoided, it’s something to seek out.
We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it’s your turn to stand up and stand out.
We’re going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it’s difficult, is the single best moment.
Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.
If you’re not willing to get your ‘worst one ever’ out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.
My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else’s.
Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.
The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That’s one reason why the web is so fascinating-it’s a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.
The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don’t have much wiggle room here.
If you’re remarkable it’s likely that some people won’t like you.