I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.