Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality..

People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer..

People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong..

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….

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….

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

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..

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….

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

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

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

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

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..