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Edwin Land's strategy:

"Don't do anything that someone else can do"

On finding your second wind:

“Sooner or later, however, a writer (or at least a writer of my type) finds himself at a crossroads: he has exhausted his initial experience of the world and the ways of expressing it and he must decide how to proceed from there.

He can, of course, seek ever more brilliant ways of saying the things he has already said;

the best argument for building in public:

what is ordinary to you about your product is unknown to the customer and if they knew would marvel them.