Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.