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" I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. "

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" If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power. "

" I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge. "

" Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be. "

" The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. "

" Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator. "

" If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons. "

" This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over. "

" And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect. "

" If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new. "

" The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win. "

" I think there's plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That's just not the kind of blog I'm writing, and I'm not the kind of blogger that could do that. "

" Dig your well before you're thirsty. "

" If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don't work. "

" The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way. "

" We're not going to outgrow our need for information. "

" Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading. "

" What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever. "

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" A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable. "

" One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice. "

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" I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week. "

" Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you think are effective tactics, ignoring the burbling crowd and not eating bacon. All of these are useful habits. "

" Marketing is a contest for people's attention. "

" I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing. "

" The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. "

" Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person. "

" My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results. "

" Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone. "