I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by right reason,' is how he defined it.

I get to sing the melody part.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time, they close down and become less friendly to entrepreneurship, to innovation, to new ideas. Over time, the companies that become dominant take more out of the ecosystem than they put back in.