The only metric that matters

I've been lucky to be part of the early growth of several really interesting and now important networks including LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. One of the things that I felt working on each of these is that we never looked at numbers or metrics in the abstract -- total page…

What I Learned Building A Startup like Dogster, Inc.

Is design a part of mainstream startup culture now? Absolutely.

Why I work on stuff I care about

Since I left Google I’ve worked on two types of ideas.

Some I chose to work on because they were in the right market, waiting to be disrupted, and they seemed to make sense. That turned out to be a bunch of bullshit.

#newtwitter

This is a story about a reconstruction project I worked on at Twitter Inc.

Coming up for Air

The most important thing I’ve learned building Readability isn’t really about building. It’s about understanding how important…

What I Learned Buildling a Video-Game Studio

Throttle Growth

Don’t let the unchosen bother you

In being part of a team that’s building a company there will always be a long list of opportunities and tasks. That you should pick the most important ones and focus is obvious. A harder state to obtain is to not let the things you aren’t focusing on bother you.

What’s next?

One of the things i’ve learnt whilst building Hope for Justice is that it’s easy to get transfixed by whatever’s ‘next’.