The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow you and this is one of the big changes that was really introduced by Flickr, was this wonderful idea that you can follow somebody without their permission. Recognizing that relationships are asymmetrical, unlike facebook where we have to acknowledge each other otherwise we can’t see each other.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.

Who has the data has the power.

There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can’t possibly get to these and do what they do best.

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.