Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.

I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.

When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.