Just Start. Start Now. Fail Often. Enjoy

No One Can Force You To Stand Up, Speak Up And Make A Difference. But If You Back Off And Play Along, Please Understand That Whatever Happens Happened, At Least In Part, Because You Acquiesced.

Sooner Or Later, The Ones Who Told You That This Isn't The Way It's Done, The Ones Who Found Time To Sneer, They Will Find Someone Else To Hassle. Sooner Or Later, They Stop Pointing Out How Much Hubris You've Got, How You're Not Entitled To Make A New Thing, How You Will Certainly Come To Regret Your Choices. Sooner Or Later, Your Work Speaks For Itself. Outlasting The Critics Feels Like It Will Take A Very Long Time, But You're More Patient Than They Are.

The Answer To The Question "where Do Good Ideas Come From" Is Always The Same, The Come From Bad Ideas. If You Come Up With 20 Bad Ideas You Get One Good One.

We're Better In The Rearview Mirror Than We Are At Predicting - 'cause You're Never Going To Be Right Every Time. You Can Handicap It. You Can Point To Certain Elements That Make It Work, And Many Of Those Elements Come Straight Out Of Epidemiology, Right?

The Time To Look For A New Job Is When You Don't Need One. The Time To Switch Jobs Is Before It Feels Comfortable.