As I learned more and more about life in academia, a new monster emerged from the career questions swirling around in my head: “Am I good enough?”

When might tinkering reveal truths that your premediated design can only dream of?

To oversee is not to see it all.

There is a power in process that will stay with you beyond the success or failure or the particular project facilitated by that process.

You might get a handful of listeners, you might get one, you will start (and might end) with none. Consider doing it anyway…

Multitasking will sit upon your most salivary pedestal, blinding you to the unmounted value of doing one thing at a time.