Let others slap each others on the back while you’re back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement.
Doing great work is a struggle. It’s draining, it’s demoralizing, it’s frightening – not always, but it can feel that way when we’re deep in the middle of it.
When you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you.
What is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
This is a fundamental irony of most people’s lives. They don’t quite know what they want to do with their lives. Yet they are very active.
You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.
Publicity does not come easily, profits do not come easily, and knowledge does not come easily.
Right thing is usually clear and intuitive enough to feel in our gut.
Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure.
Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success – but it’s there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.
Public relations and marketing are something companies do to move product. It is not meaningful. It is not cool. Yet because it is cheap, easy, and lucrative to cover, blogs want to convince you that it is.
Leveraging community intelligence and making connections is a key component to being a growth hacker.
You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation.