Stop. I’m not going to take any more input until I’ve made something with what I got..

You're gonna die. You're gonna die. And nobody's gonna care which version of the iPhone you used to make something on Twitter, or to go and post abou….

Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite..

Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work..

Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You’re Either Lying Or Crazy..

Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade..

Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement..

Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more..

Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than a river pebble. But it doesn't take long until you….

Make the time to be scared of more interesting things..

It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake soluti….

Go a little easier on yourself, and in so doing, be prepared to make and do things that might seem silly at first. Just keep moving: don't ruminate a….

You got to be careful to not get too comfortable with incremental improvement. I think sometimes you just got to jump off a ledge..

Being consistent is way less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project..

Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging..

A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and….

The mindless junk of your past crowds out opportunities and sets pointless limitations. Move out the junk, and you create room for the rest of your l….

Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon..

Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely.... Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those devil….

I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats..

Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you e….