If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.

If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people you most enjoy working with embody and the user experience of new people joining your organization, from the offer letter to their first day.

Simplicity not simplistic.

If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.

It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.

The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook, our Akismet team sends them daily emails of splogs on the service, and there's healthy import and export traffic both ways.