"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's." – Joseph Campbell
Much of what we consider progress is measured against stories that have already been written.
The irony in benchmarking ourselves against things we already know have been accomplished: we reduce the likelihood of writing a story of our own.
Classic fiction distilled into one hundred moral lessons to reveal universal truths.
If you are building something, it is far more useful to focus on the work you are doing to produce the result than the result itself.
The constraint we apply to package our idea determines their reach & resonance. "Make 1 decision to eliminate 1,000 decisions."
