My Goal Is To Simplify Complexity.

The Strongest Thing You Can Cultivate As An Entrepreneur Is To Not Rely On Luck But Cultivating An Ability To Recognize Fortunate Situations When They Are Occurring.

Those Words Are From Lynda Barry's Novel 'cruddy.' I've Carried Them With Me For Some Time. There's A Lot In My Life I Wasn't Expecting. One Is The Realization That I Stood At This Pulpit And Delivered A Reading For My Own Graduation...15 Years Ago. Unexpectedly, I'm Old.

Don't Avoid Eye Contact And Don't Be Late

I'm Less Interested In How People Are Following Each Other And More Interested In How They Are Following Topics And Tweets Themselves. People Are Following More Key Words And Concepts And More Ideas And Acting On Those Rather Than Individuals Or Organizations.

Technology To Me Does Two Things: It Increases The Velocity Of Communication And Increases The Number Of People Who Can Participate. That's It. That's Really All Technology For Our Entire History Has Ever Done.