Today it’s a place you go to exchange a lifetime of debt for credit hours, a degree, and maybe a good job.

“Do I care about what you do?”

if your narrative, your analysis, your reaction to the incoming world isn’t giving you the insight to successfully do the work you’d like to do, it’s almost certainly not the world’s fault.

She’s the person who figures out what to do next—and then does it. She improvises.

While we occasionally celebrate the outliers, the mythological gods of our culture, it is always with the understanding that they are not us.

If you want access to my attention, my gratitude, and my soul, you will earn it with your emotional labor.

The Internet and the connection economy turn the economics of mass on its head. It’s now cheaper and more efficient to make edgy, amazing products for the weird edge cases (who are listening and talking and who care) than it is to push yet another average product onto the already overloaded average people in the middle of the curve.

Art has no right answer. The best we can hope for is an interesting answer.

Part of your hard work is to shun the nonbelievers and to focus on the audience of your choice.