“[...] boundaries create a platform for important work.” —Seth Godin on Susan Kare

“Gratitude isn't a problem. But believing we're owed gratitude is a trap.” —Seth Godin, author of “The Practice”

“Don’t over-improve your weaknesses. If you’re not good at something, work on it until it no longer prevents your progress, but the bulk of your time is better spent maximizing your strengths.” —James Clear, author of “Atomic Habits”

“But information is AN UNDIGESTED BURDEN unless it is understood. It is knowledge only as its material is comprehended. And understanding, comprehension, means that the various parts of the information acquired are grasped in their relations to one another — a result that is attained only when acquisition is accompanied by CONSTANT REFLECTION upon the meaning of what is studied.” —John Dewey, author of “How We Think” (1933)

“every so often I’ll hear writers say that there are other writers they would read if for no other reason than to marvel at the skill with which they can put together the sort of sentences that move us to read closely, to disassemble and reassemble them, much the way a mechanic might learn about an engine by taking it apart.” —Francine Prose, author “Reading Like a Writer”