All you need to be sure of to start a startup is that you want to try it to see what it's like, that you're capable of working very hard, and that yo… - Paul Graham

Writing doesn’t just communicate ideas; it generates them. If you’re bad at writing and don’t like to do it, you’ll miss out on most of the ideas writing would have generated.

In almost any group of people you’ll find hierarchy. When groups of adults form in the real world, it’s generally for some common purpose, and the leaders end up being those who are best at it. The problem with most schools is, they have no purpose. But hierarchy there must be. And so the kids make one out of nothing.

The best thing software can be is easy, but the way to do this is to get the defaults right, not to limit users' choices.