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.

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.

One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.

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.

There's no financial aspect to stats.

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

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