A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone.
Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.
In other words, If you don’t take action, you won’t get any results You are not your resume, you are your work.
Plans are great, but missions are better.
Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don’t teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.
Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don’t show up. They want to be missed when they’re gone.
Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.
We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.
The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
If you can’t be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.
The time to look for a new job is when you don’t need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.
A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.
Dig your well before you’re thirsty.
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it’s useless, I think it’s a distraction.
Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it’s easier, it scales and it’s profitable. But people don’t like it – we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.
Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It’s not just about entertainment – it’s about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.
I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.
Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.