Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions suffer. Your company suffers. Love those close to you: Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationship is.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

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

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

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