The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.
For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.
When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.
In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world.
I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.
Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.
Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.
We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.
Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today.
I'm pretty cheap, to be honest.
Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.
Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.
My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit.
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.
I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.