Write the kind of story you like best — write the story you want to read.

Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas. Here’s a trick they teach you in art school. Draw two parallel lines on a piece of paper: How many lines are there? There’s the first line, the second line, but then there’s a line of negative space that runs between them. See it? 1 + 1 = 3.

La distancia y la diferencia son el secreto tónico de la creatividad. Cuando llegamos a casa, todo es igual. Pero algo en nuestra mente ha cambiado y eso, cambia todo.” — Jonah Lehrer