I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.

Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.

Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.

America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, wed understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace.

Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining

Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump.