I think most programmers spend the first 5 years of their career mastering complexity, and the rest of their lives learning simplicity.

Tumblr is censoring its Dashboard to educate users about the proposed SOPA bill. Learn more here: http://t.co/J9aeTH27 http://t.co/csKbk6wR

This anonymous Quora post about Zynga highlights the ugly, underreported dark side of modern startupdom: http://t.co/bHnLts28 /via @irondavy

I propose a new term for applications like Mailbox: productivity theater.

This is probably the most accurate critique of startup company culture I've ever read:  http://blog.prettylittlestatemachine.com/blog/2013/02/20/what-your-culture-really-says/ … /via @btmerr

I propose we accept iPhone release days as inherent productivity losses and declare a new Federal holiday: unboxing day.

Seriously impressed with the Photoshop work behind http://t.co/7px1lZpt. The North Korean regime should hire whoever is behind it!

Based on this, I really hope to see more UI critiques from Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi: http://t.co/SwZPSuxX via /@adammathes

T-shirt idea: "I Heart Skeuomorphism," but with a realistic looking heart.

The problem with making new friends as you get older is that everything about you just becomes too damn long a story.

Proud to announce that I asked @meowrey to be my wife, and she said yes!

Every time I hear "we need to replicate the richness of real world social relationships on the web," I have a mental image of Microsoft Bob.

It's fine to say "move fast and break things" and "ditch the polish," but if you do, don't also think you're going to be the next Apple.

OH: "The co-located Mac Mini is the fixie of the server world."

Seeing "Pirates of Silicon Valley" 10 years ago inspired me to make life changes that made me what I am today. I owe a lot to
Steve Jobs.

Thought on iCloud: any time you hear "we've eliminated a difficult engineering problem in an opaque way" your reaction should be skepticism.

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness, emotionally starving for attention..." http://bit.ly/bPeWZx

The problem with http://t.co/mWvdBLUq is it's defined more by what it isn't than what it is.

Yelp users are the ultimate proof of Oscar Wilde's adage that a cynic knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

The absence of Steve Jobs isn't the biggest challenge Apple faces these days. The truly scary thing is that they're no longer an underdog.