The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.

Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation...15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I'm old.

Build what you want to see in the world.

My goal is to simplify complexity.

The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.