Assume no one remembers names. As a courtesy, reintroduce yourself by name even to those you have previously met: “Hi, I’m Kevin.” - Kevin Kelly

To be interesting, just tell your own story with uncommon honesty.

As Marshall McLuhan observed, the first version of a new medium imitates the medium it replaces. The first commercial computers employed the metaphor of the office. Our screens had a “desktop” and “folders” and “files.” They were hierarchically ordered, like much of the industrial age that the computer was overthrowing.

Before you are old
attend as many funerals as you can bear
and listen. Nobody talks
about the departed’s achievements. The only thing people will remember
is what kind of person you were
while you were achieving.