Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
Life’s too short” is repeated often enough to be a cliche, but this time it’s true. You don’t have enough time to be both unhappy and mediocre. It’s not just pointless, it’s painful. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
The Dip creates scarcity; scarcity creates value.
Stick with the Dips that are likely to pan out, and quit the Cul-de-Sacs to focus your resources.
The challenge is this: training creative, independent, and innovative artists is new to us.
Group projects are the exception in school, but they should be the norm.
Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger, and it benefits our entire economy.
The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.
This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.
For many of us, the happiest future is one that’s precisely like the past, except a little better.