Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves

I want to build something I’d be happy to be employed by 10 years out.

Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.

For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don't do that, and it's a problem.

The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.

Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.

Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a fixed, normal part of my life. ... I need rituals to prevent unnecessarily rocking my already shaky emotional boat.