I started Boom knowing literally zero people in aerospace. Networks are built naturally when doing something interesting—they are not a precondition. - Blake Scholl

Defensiveness is a learning disability. If you can’t admit when you’re wrong, it’s impossible to learn and grow.

It’s easy to think that once you’ve said “thanks” the appreciation box is checked. But gratitude is like love: you don’t say it once at the wedding and call it done. You repeat it every day.

Technology’s most wonderful benefits are often second-order and entirely unpredictable. Steve Jobs’ “a phone, an iPod, and an internet communicator” is now a device for bringing police brutality and racism into the national consciousness so both may be eradicated.