Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

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.

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

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

Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.

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.