News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

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.

Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

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.

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

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