A talented person can quickly become mediocre when you force them to be someone they aren’t.

If it was hard work that counted, the donkey would own the farm.

Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight

You cannot find answers without asking the right questions.

Be dangerous, its careful out there

Me is overrated
We is underrated

Planning is overrated
Planting is underrated

Answers are overrated
Questions are underrated

Virality is overrated
Quality is underrated

h/t Blas Moros

"I don't need time. What I need is a deadline." — Duke Ellington

One of my goals in life is to emit as much value as I can while learning as much as I can along the way

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."

— Cormac McCarthy