Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world.

One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.

If you make the Internet, live on the internet.

Do what you love and don't focus on money - life's too short.

Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.