People have different interpretations of "urgent".

Writing your own blog platform is like roasting your own coffee: it's impractical and you probably shouldn't do it, but for people who really, truly care about it, it's worthwhile to them for their own personal priorities that sound crazy to everyone else. Well, I write my own blog platform and I roast my own coffee.

One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

People will pay for something they like because they want to ensure its future.

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.