I get offered a lot of the same type of thing. . . The teenage slasher movies.
My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
I spend 90% of my time with people who don't report to me, which also allows for serendipity, since I'm walking around the office all the time. You don't have to schedule serendipity. It just happens.
I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.
Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.
To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.
Evidence of harm is hard to come by.
Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.