Last week I rewatched Merlin Mann’s talk from Webvisions 2010, Bold Ideas and Insane Possibilities, and for the first time I understood some things he said about Facebook (which he hates). I quit Facebook in May of 2010, and all these months later, what clicked after rewatching this video was that there are mechanisms to…

Think, push email rather than pushing a point of view. I don’t know about other people, but for my blog I always sway back and forth worried about writing blog posts that are too short or, more often, writing what ends up being long essays that nobody had the time to read. Getting the right…

The first time you tell people about Evernote, they never get it. Give them a few months though and they’ll come back to you raving about how much they love the premium subscription they just bought for the note taking service. It’s hard for people to understand why they would want to use Evernote the…