Don’t take a job because it pays the most money.

Always demand a deadline because it weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. A deadline prevents you from trying to make it perfect so you have to make it different. Different is better.

Your 20s are the perfect time to do a few things that are unusual, weird, bold, risky, unexplainable, crazy, unprofitable, and look nothing like “success.” For the rest of your life these experiences will serve as your muse.

Tend to the small things. More people are defeated by blisters than by mountains.

The main reason to produce something every day is that you must throw away a lot of good work to reach the great stuff. To let it all go easily you need to be convinced that there is “more where that came from.” You get that in steady production.

For lofty goals, measure your progress from where you started rather than where you need to finish.

It is much easier to change how you think by changing your behavior than it is to change your behavior by changing how you think. Act out the change you seek.

Fear makes people do stupid things so don’t trust anything made in fear.

Don’t bother fighting the old just build the new.