Adam Faze

I call Trump a Marshall McLuhanesque figure. McLuhan called it, right? He says this mass thing called media, or what Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said of the noosphere, is going to so overwhelm evolutionary biology that it will be everything. And Trump understands that. That’s why he watches TV.

So start. Start with what you have. Start before you’re ready. Start before it’s good.

Then refine. Polish. Repeat.

If you’re not happy with the result? Keep going. Reinvention doesn’t happen in a single leap. It happens in the doing, the trying, the evolving.

One day, without realizing it, you’ll look back and see just how much has changed.

We assume people want polished perfection. But often, they’re more drawn to the rough draft. The early adopters, the ones who find you first? They’re not looking for sleek—they’re looking for a spark .

They don’t need your idea to be refined. They just need to believe in it.

Your first 1,000 true fans won’t care that your work is raw, that you’re sti... See more

There’s power in letting people in on your vision . They might know someone who knows someone. They might just be waiting for the chance to help. No one is a mind reader. The best opportunities I’ve ever had came because I spoke up.

As Elon Musk, a government contractor, sets fire to our civil service and makes decisions about the departments that regulate him; as the FBI and the Justice Department are captured by partisans who will never prosecute their colleagues for corruption; as inspectors general are fired and rules about conflicts of interest are ignored, America is spi... See more

But you should see my friends at DHS. They’re definitely taking the national issue seriously.

He understands that to get anything done, you have to make the people understand. And so therefore, constantly, we’re in a battle of narrative. Unrestricted narrative warfare. Everything is narrative. And in that regard, you have to make sure you forget about the noise and focus on the signal.