When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you have to give people a reason to click through. Blogs need to be real and personal. Reading it should be like hanging out with you. I play music for my readers. I show them videos I like. I tell them what I did over the weekend. And I tell them what is happening in the technology, Internet, and VC markets.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.