I Learned Very Early On

You Don't Become Great By Trying To Be Great. You Become Great By Wanting To Do Something, And Then Doing It So Hard That You Become Great In The Process.

I Learned Very Early On In Life That Not Everyone Wants To Hear Every Fact In The World, Even If You Want To Tell Them Everything You've Ever Read.

Things Are Rarely Just Crazy Enough To Work, But They're Frequently Just Crazy Enough To Fail Hilariously.

I Think The Comic That's Gotten Me The Most Feedback Is Actually The One About The Stoplights. Noticing When The Stoplights Are In Sync, Or Calculating The Length Of Your Strides Between Floor Tiles - Normal People Notice That Kind Of Stuff, But A Certain Kind Of Person Will Do Some Calculations.

I Used To Work At Nasa In Virginia. It Was Nothing Glamorous; I Was Just Tasked With Making Code Compile For Obscure Projects, And I Wasn't Very Good At It. Now I Spend Most Of My Time Drawing Pictures And Looking At Funny Things On The Internet, Which In Retrospect Is Largely What I Did At My Old Job, Too.