"No one gets anywhere alone"

If you’re intimidated or afraid of reaching out to potential patrons, know that it gets easier. You just need to start. If you’re already doing this, keep going. It never hurts to have more people on your side. Every success is a story of community—a complex network of people helping each other. Don’t forget: You can’t do this alone.

It's very hard to build new things. The default when you're starting something is nobody cares. And your job is to make them care. And it sucks because you care so much about this thing. You have this crystal clear vision. And your job is to overcome indifference. And that’s just a hard journey.

But if you don't believe that it's possible, you've di

The other route is to become a working professional, a leader, someone who chooses to ship creative work. And shipping means that it’s for someone. To commit to that path is a brave and generous act. And it puts you on the hook to see the audience clearly enough, and to be brave enough, to develop the empathy needed to create generous work.

People try to explain the world, but the real point is to change the world.