A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.
If you’re not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.
I don’t have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you’ve created until it’s out there.
Technology is best when it brings people together.
Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
Usage is like oxygen for ideas.
If you make the Internet, live on the internet.
I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the talent of people outside your walls is greater than the sum of the few you have inside. None of us are as smart as all of us.
You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.
Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines – more than half the traffic for most blogs.
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.
The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are – in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city – you can get high speed broadband access.
130 of Automattic’s 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.
I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.
If you’re building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people you most enjoy working with embody and the user experience of new people joining your organization, from the offer letter to their first day.
There’s no financial aspect to stats.