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It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

Advice, Fun, Good, Known, Useless

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

Deliberately, Expected, Experiment, Experiments, Learn

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

Firsts, Like, Notion, Perfection, Window

History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success.

Creativity, Give, Giving, Innovation, Lost, Telling

Most people doubt online meetings can work but they somehow overlook that most in-person meetings don't work either.

Doubt, Online, People, Somehow

Innovation is significant positive change.

Change, Innovation, Positive Change, Significant

The way you find the answers to your problems will be unique to you.

Answers, Problems, Unique, Way

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.

Difference, Differences, Hallmark, Initiating, Positive, Praise

It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say.

Educational, Genuinely, People, Trying, Understand

It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.

Block, Blocks, Fear, People, Quite, Writing

No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after giving the longest inaugural address in U. S. history. The easy lesson from his story: keep it short, or you might die.

Giving, Henry, Pneumonia, Presentation, President

Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or creative.

Commit, Creative, Fail, Failing, Risk

This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all.

Believe, Big, Jobs, Problem, Working

The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.

Clarity, Code, Creativity, Lack

Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.

Fun, Ideas, Insights, Small, Together

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

Comfortable, Confidence, Goal, Know, Perfection

Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

Based, Private, Public Speaking, Speaking, Thinking

Staying curious and open is what makes growth possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have to avoid the temptation to slide into narrow, safe views of what we do.

Growth, Practice, Safe, Staying, Temptation, Views

Innovative ideas are rarely rejected on their merits; they’re rejected because of how they make people feel. If you forget people’s concerns and feelings when you present an innovation, or neglect to understand their perspectives in your design, you’re setting yourself up to fail.

Design, Feelings, Ideas, People, Perspective, Rejected

I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.

Good, Perfect, Sound, Trying, Way

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