I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.
I've done a lot of stupid things, but in most cases I can't complain about the outcomes.
I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.
I think Twitter will be a fundamental part of how people interact with their government.
I believe that companies that are independent are more competitive, ultimately.
While GeoCities isn't cool, it isn't a bad thing. It did a great thing - enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.
In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.
Where you are defines what you're interested in.
I think there's few cases in history where the C.E.O. Steps down and is also the founder and reports to someone and that works.
I mistrust anyone... If they're saying, 'Well, that market wants this,' and you're not part of that market.
I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.
Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.
Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network.
The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.
What the Internet is great at is building networks.
Blogging and traditional media work together. Twitter complements traditional media.
I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.
Twitter isn't a social network, it's an information network.
