“When I feel a little stir inside of me and I want to remember it, I’ll take a picture. A visual complement to a memory of a feeling that is worth every single second it took to get the lighting just right.”

“Don’t send the email unless you have something to say. That might mean every quarter, that might mean only three times a year — it’s when companies start to feel the need to send something every week or every day or every single month no matter whether or not they have content.”

“When you have to talk yourself into something, it’s a bad sign — that’s true also of relationships, hiring and so many other parts of life.”

“There is little sense in shouting against the wind, but the blog—the blog as a thematically or personally coherent space containing an individual’s or a subject’s specific interests, commitments, attitudes—was a great thing, and its decline is saddening… The blog was the right form for the right time, but it was also just plain right, and remains so. Sometimes the pace of technology leads us to do something that is substantially superior, and sometimes the pace of technology leads us to do something that is substantially inferior. It would be nice if we could step in when the mutation selected is a good one, and identify it as something worth saving. But I’m guessing there isn’t as much money in that.”