This is the beauty of social media: it helps you find people and then you can contact them fast and inexpensively.

Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.

I would consider...Google Plus a push technology. It's closer to Twitter than to Facebook.

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.