a practice

essentially, the way to succeed on YouTube is to start by making 100 videos, trying to make each one a little better than the last, and otherwise not judging your performance too harshly until you’ve shipped 100 videos

Well, you need dirt to grow plants. A farmer I admire once wrote that 90% of his job was dirt management. Manage the dirt well and the plants grow themselves.

it’s not done because it’s perfect. It’s done because it’s done.

We live in this place, in this world, where we can share our words but not our thoughts.

but writing, in many ways, is my slowest story.

Once the search is in progress, something will be found

“So can you promise that you won't take your gifts for granted?"

The big prize is to discover a new fractal bud. You notice a crack in the surface of knowledge, pry it open, and there's a whole world inside.

Life is a series of misunderstandings. We only get to decide how we respond when we don’t understand.