Don't be a fraud or a follower. Don't be a pundit or a publicity hound. Don't be afraid or awestruck. Just believe in yourself and do work.

Hot: building a sustainable business. Not: doing a startup.

Whenever you try to do something radical, people will hate. Conservatism breeds fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Stasis is death. Go forward.

Startups are hard. Give your coworkers the benefit of the doubt, be supportive, and be cool. Everyone wants to make something great.

Folks that are complaining about the AWS forced reboots should spend their energy removing SPOFs from their envs so reboots won't matter.

.@joestump Hear, hear. Lack of process sometimes leads to failure. Lack of product always does.

Working with amazing people means that sometimes you will have amazingly frustrating differences of opinion. It's a perk, so deal with it.

Consumers paid 32 billion in banking overdraft fees last year, up 400 million from 2011. @simplify customers paid $0.  http://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybuilder/2013/04/02/consumers-paid-32-billion-in-overdraft-fees-in-2012/ …

In lieu of a holiday party, @banksimple donated to the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research on behalf of its employees. :)

More CAP theorem goodness from Henry Robinson: http://bit.ly/b7fAJy.

This beginner's tutorial on using Chef + EC2 from @rberger is among the best I've seen. Nice work! http://bit.ly/eyEuM6

Thank you @noir for caring about privacy and security. We care too but sometimes a reminder helps. It took courage to call us out. Respect.

@coda Have you seen her on Letterman? Amazing. She is one of my personal heroes. http://t.co/8V4RHtO9

I'm engaging in the sacred holiday tradition of removing all of the malware from my parents computer and making the printer work.

Do you have an intern that can simultaneously solve a partial derivative while correctly self-diagnosing with appendicitis? Didn't think so.

Santa @simplify has a bag full of invites for you. Ask and ye shall receive. Unless you've been naughty. Feel free to RT.

Develop production services on OS X? Don't do it. Use OS X tools/env while doing development in a vm running your production OS? Do it.

Old pal @b6n masterfully delivers an argument for ignoring standards and getting things done. Bravo dude. http://youtu.be/kRVWjC6osuw #oscon

"The damning evidence would spur ... criminal investigations of BofA executives, if we still had a rule of law"  http://www.salon.com/2013/06/18/bank_of_america_whistleblowers_bombshell_we_were_told_to_lie/ …

Lightning bolth. http://t.co/2nmFhdKG