Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.

Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

Markets come and go. Good business don't.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

I build my world with the pages of a book.

I love sleep. I need sleep. We all do, of course. There are those people that don't need sleep. I think they're called 'successful.

I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a thing. There's just is-ness; there's just eternity.

The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn't hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets.

The connection, that's what's important - that through this medium we can, perhaps, understand and touch each other.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.