Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.

When a plane lands in the Hudson and there's a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That's it. The water is still splashing. Here's the photo of the thing.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.

We realized we weren't really using Odeo, we weren't investing our own time creating podcasts. We were building a tool that was a great idea for some other people. That's a dangerous way to go because if you don't actually use it yourself and love it, then you aren't going to be as fully invested in it from the start. That's what leads you to doing side projects.

You have to think for an email. What's the subject? What's it about? It takes two seconds to think about that. So you have to think, Is this a work thing or a social thing? Which? Then you get into a situation that you don't want to be in, because then people are thinking about it too much.

The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.