Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership.

With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.

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

Charge for something and make more than you spend.

Making a product better often requires removing features.

Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do. To really shine, it needs a full-time staff of at least a few people.

Google won't break into your home. You'll invite them in.