I’m not a psychopath-I’m wearing a tie!
There’s no map for being an artist.
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
It’s time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what’s good enough and start creating art that matters.
We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.
Mass attention is almost unattainable and it’s not clear that you want it.
Increasingly, there are only two kinds of companies: brave and dead.
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
If you don’t get it built, the work doesn’t matter.
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
In general, organizations are afraid to fire customers, no matter how unreasonable. This is a mistake. It’s good for you.
Any customer that walks away, disrespected and defeated, represents tens of thousands of dollars out the door, in addition to the failure of a promise the brand made in the first place. You can’t see it but it’s happening, daily.
One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.
Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.
If you’re working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I’m not sure you’re doing your best work if you’re doing it on an iPhone.
Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.
Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.
Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts.