"Whether it’s news, tweets, books, or any other form of written word, reading remains the most efficient way of consuming and capturing information. And information is the most valuable asset in the world."

"Morning and evenings at home, I tend to read on my iPad Air (I recently got the new variety, thoughts on that coming soon). In the afternoon, I read on my iPhone. And at night, I read on my Kindle"

"Buffet is perhaps a bit too extreme. By his own estimation, 80 percent of his working day is spent reading."

"Because of that journalism background, I look for founders who can communicate well. It’s an overlooked skill because a good idea doesn't always translate into a viable product with users and customers."

"Storytelling – what you’re doing and why it matters – is incredibly important, whether you're convincing users to download your app, rallying your team behind a launch, or raising your next round of funding."

"Over the years, a few services have popped up to do this at a high level."

"I want a way to highlight a bit of text, no matter where it may be, and for that highlight to be saved somewhere, in an at least somewhat organized fashion, ideally with a link back to where I found the information saved."

"Unfortunately, these services tend to pop out of existence as quickly as they pop in. More importantly, they’re often limited by the OSes on which they run. So the experience you’re left with is one that 99% of users will never bother with"

"right next to the options to cut, copy, and paste — which is ‘highlight’. And invoking this highlights the text on the screen and saves that text somewhere else — maybe even the Notes app — to be revisited later. Again, ideally with a link back to where you found said text. Either a website or even another app."

"Where ever these highlights are saved, be it a ‘Highlights’ app or again, the Notes app, is where you go to find your saved highlights in reverse chronological order. And if you so desired, you could do some work to further categorize them here."

"On your phone, tablet, or computer, you should be able to highlight any text, anywhere. And in fact you can, with your mouse cursor (or finger). But there’s no good way to make such highlights permanent, beyond the above steps."

"K-I-S-S: Keep It Simple, Stupid. It’s a mantra that always pops into my head when I’m looking at new startups."

"Way too many new products and services are too complicated. And I would suggest, often fail as a direct result of that"

"decisions can be a burden. And further, users are often bad decision makers."

"some people have been saying Twitter is silly. Those people aren’t necessarily wrong, but even they must admit that it has done one thing very right: Keeping the service simple."

"The number one reason I started using Facebook rather than MySpace several years ago is that it was so much neater, cleaner — yes, simpler."

"These changes require more work be put in to learning the system again, and that takes away from Facebook’s core value"

"Rather than roll out new features to everyone while it waits for the inevitable backlash, Google makes them opt-in only, through Labs. This way, it really is the user’s fault if they don’t like the change"

"Simplicity can often mean beauty."

"It does one thing — and it does that one thing very well."

"All he needed was to make something that is very good at what it does."

"my regular rotation is FourSquare. Why? Well, mostly because my friends use it. But why do they use it? Because it’s simple. On its iPhone app, it takes two clicks to check in at a place."

"One kickass feature far outweighs a dozen half-assed ones. Focus on that one."

"“Big things have small beginnings.”"

"And yet, I can’t tell you how many startups try to begin by “boiling the ocean” — that is, trying to do everything they can because they can. It’s almost always a mistake, of course. (Hard to come up with a time when it’s not.) Not only do you need to focus and all that — but you need to convince a group of early users to become die hard users. And that’s a lot easier to do if you start out “small.”"

"It’s no secret why: it’s human nature to want to do everything you can to succeed, and also to give yourself more optionality to find that success. So you boil that ocean."

"I also have an affliction known as blogcitis. That is, I tend to read way too many blog posts (as opposed to books). This is both a remnant of my former life and a deep desire to gain as much knowledge as possible on any given day.¹ It also speaks to my immense and intense use of Pocket."

"I literally and figuratively save my reading for later, at set times when I have a moment to sit down and consume a handful of things (usually audibly)."

"In some ways, my wife and I already have a de facto Pocket club — that is, we send many articles to one another and often discuss them later after we’ve both read them. In other ways, Pocket’s new “Recommended” feed is moving us in that way. Anyone who follows me can see the articles I recommend as “worth their time” to read. But I’d like the next step: a discussion about said articles."

"What if people had a shared reading list each week of say, 20 articles, to read and discuss over dinner and/or drinks?"

"The reason why Twitter holds this exalted place shouldn’t be shocking: I actually get a lot of useful information out of it."

"I also find it quite easy to hop in and out of — which is interesting since this is one of the exact problems the larger public has with the network…"

"Meanwhile, the elephant in the room. I can go long stretches without checking Facebook and feel absolutely no remorse. The content is simply not that compelling to me"

"The fact that all of these well-established networks with hundreds of millions — or billions — of active users fall away relatively quickly when life gets in the way doesn’t bode well for the guys without network effects."