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Write the book you want to read
You're ready. Start making stuff.
Inertia is the death of creativity
Keep all your passions in your life.
Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.
Be nice. (The world is a small town.)
Copying is about reverse-engineering.
Become a documentarian of what you do.
Do good work and share it with people.
Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.
The only way to find your voice is to use it
If you want fans, you have to be a fan first.
Don't worry about doing research. Just search.
In order to be found, you have to be findable.
You can't find your voice if you don't use it.
Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)
We found the future, like birds fly into windows.
Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.
Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.
Marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom
Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.
It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.
Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.
So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.
The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others.
You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.
Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.
Today isn't just another day. Today I'll create something beautiful.
You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.
You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.
Eat breakfast. Do some push-ups. Go for long walks. Get plenty of sleep.
Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.
The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.
Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing.
When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.
The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.
Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.
You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.
Establishing and keeping a routine can be even more important than having a lot of time.
If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
The people who get what they’re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.
It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.
Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.
If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.
Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.
The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.
The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.
In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.
Unless you are actually a ninja, a guru, or a rock star, don't ever use any of those terms in your bio. Ever.
Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'