The Internet is allowing for us to really experience people in some of the most distant places in the world - as other people just like us. So get to know people, seek out bloggers from a country you're kind of curious about. It's about building empathy and breaking through to the point of recognizing people as people.

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

Dialing down is not an option for me.

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.