Sometimes I apologize. It started that way and we never did change it.
So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead.
More content will be created today than existed in entirety before 2003.
Marketing today is much more like sailing than driving. Your boat is the brand. If you point your boat in the right direction, follow the windscurrents, and steer, you will get the boat to go where you want it. Marketers should become the wind, but accept that they’re at the mercy of the currents and weather
A prominent mention in The Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago garnered me a whopping 40 visitors.
Let's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic 2. 0 together. This time, it's not stock market money but private equity, M&A, VCs and to some degree the reckless abandonment of logic by some advertisers who are perpetuating what is sure to end badly when the economy turns. Hubris is back my friends.
The iPhone has completely changed how I interact with information on the go. When I travel I leave the notebook at home.
Some people even think I wear a wig. Do they think I went into a salon one day and said, Can you please screw this up really bad?
What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage” is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives.
The idea of having dinner together every day with your family removes the pressure from trying to explain everything. You tell us the good parts about your day, but you also tell us the bad parts about your day. And at the end of that, because you're in a ritual, you remove the pressure of admitting you had a failure that day. And it also takes the wind out of having a great day. I mean, it makes you a little bit more normal all the time. That moment of therapeutic sharing is something that happens in food, that doesn't necessarily happen when you're watching TV.
We were very, very lucky being in the first round of Y Combinator because that alone generated a lot of interest. A lot of readers of Paul Graham were just excited to see what was going to come up. And we were the first ones to launch.