Nobody can read your mind. Share your ideas. Tell people what you’re working on. Communicate your vision, even if it’s only half baked. Stir the pot.

Rebecca Solnit - “underneath the task of writing a particular piece is the general one of making a self who can make the work you are meant to make.” https://t.co/hfVXl0yIp2

"The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated." https://t.co/KfFpouh7Dm

my cheesy oversimplification that i do think is true is that ultimately marketing is simply about publicly being in love with the problem-space that you’re operating in. your product, sure, but why did you make the product? because you cared about the problem, right? show us!!

The kids are joining running clubs, buying “dumb” phones, woodworking, rocking Walkmans, joining supper clubs, etc because their lives have been swallowed by digital black boxes, and in this moment of uncertainty (tension re: war, AI, climate), they crave tangibility. It’s simple

on framing, and the spellpower of words https://t.co/rGZToTMTiM

1/4 Additional new bits of advice I wished I had known earlier (not in my book), as my gift on my 73 birthday: • The best way to criticize something is to make something better. • Admitting that “I don’t know” at least once a day will make you a better person. • Forget trying to decide what your life’s destiny is. That’s too grand. Instead, just... See more