For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

I think we will find more and more ways in which technology invades our artistic spaces, so music is something you will need more than ever because it is there in time and in space and for that moment only.

Technology has enabled an environment where information is constantly fed to us on a real-time basis. You can't slow the feed of information, nor would you want to, but you can control and organize your consumption.

Every new HubSpot employee has to go through training to learn how to use the software. That's a good idea, and it also keeps me from having to worry about what I'm supposed to be doing here or why Cranium, who hired me, still has never come by to say hello or talk about what he wants me to work on.

Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with.