"The curse of success is that we move slower and it’s a confusing curse. See, we’ve been successful and the result of that success is that we’re able to hire more people to do the seemingly impossible amount of work our success has created. But each person we add to do more work strategically slows us down. Each additional person levies a communication tax and unless we figure out how to constantly improve our communication, we’re just going to get slower."

"[The Zone] is that magical place where you’ve managed to fit the entire context of your current project in your head. With all this content in there, you can perform superhuman acts of productivity and creativity because you have the complete problem space at your mental disposal."

Art is “the documentation of a thousand interesting decisions”.

Gems: the information hierarchy (data/information/knowledge/wisdom), "[Twitter is] connective information tissue."

Manager's Schedule == one hour units (meetings).
Maker's Schedule == half-days.

Rands' tools.