Remember all of the 'me too' social networks built just to have a social feature Facebook and MySpace didn't have? I built one for political discussion called Essembly. It enabled unique and potentially transformative social interactions, but only 20,000 people ever used it.

I never had a desire to hurt anybody.

It brought Pittsburgh into the picture of football teams in the National Football League that, ‘OK, you have to deal with us now.’

People can care about changing the world. But what gets them to act is pressure and social reward.

They say that when you're the champs, everybody will try to beat you. Well, I'm glad we're champs, so bring'em on, bring'em all on. If we die, we ain't gonna die running. It's gonna be a fight.

At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas

If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.