Set small, achievable goals on habit/custom change. I recommend aiming for 70% success rates, and making consistent incremental progress.

Don’t let VCs decide your lawyer.

Good tools do not add features and more options to what we already have, but help to reduce distractions from the main work, which here is thinking.

If it isn't making at least two organs of my body squirt fluids, it's no good.

The finest meal at a Michelin-starred restaurant might as well be a plate of instant noodles if your mind is elsewhere; and a friendship to which you never actually give a moment’s thought is a friendship in name only.

Marriage is dif ferent from these others. The mer ged life of marriage brings you into the closest, most inescapable contact with another person possible. And that means not only that you see each other close up, but that you are forced to deal with the flaws and sins of one another.

The ability to grow in the long term by using the paid engine requires a differentiated ability to monetize a certain set of customers.

I only do what is easy. I only write when I immediately know how to do it. If I falter for a moment, I put the matter aside and do something else.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I thought if I didn’t participate in adulthood, time would stop. But it didn’t. It just kept going. People around me kept going.Now I see I need to get going —and keep going.