Founder of wikiHow. Interested in how the web and entrepreneurship can expand minds and improve life.

Joined November 2008
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22 Feb 2017
Don't lose sight of all the good news hiding behind the headlines. x.com/humanprogress/status/8…

A child born today is more likely to reach retirement age than his forbearers were to live to their fifth birthday. humanprogress.org/blog/a-rea…
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23 Apr 2025
Hermetica 2.0 is now live. A new interface with full transparency - simpler to use, easier to trust, and built to scale.
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28 Jan 2020
wikiHow makes a quick cameo in Google's upcoming Superbowl ad: youtube.com/watch?v=6xSxXiHw…

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I've been yelling for a while about how WikiHow is deeply underrated/doing the best consistent service journalism on the web right now, so I was delighted to see this @kait_tiffany piece about it theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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12 Nov 2019
Today's @TheAtlantic article is one of the best descriptions of what makes @wikiHow so weird, so wonderful, so useful, while being such an oddball in Silicon Valley. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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18 Aug 2017
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5 Aug 2017
This is why wikiHow turns down acquisition offers. Exchanging your baby for money is a terrible trade. x.com/jdh/status/89327373370…

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2 Jun 2017
On behalf of all fathers... x.com/megsullivan07/status/8…

31 May 2017
My dad has been peeling oranges for my lunch since kindergarten & on my last day of high school I got this instead
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24 Apr 2017
You can now use your Amazon Alexa device to ask wikiHow how to do anything: myitforum.com/myitforumwp/20…

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"I never learned how to email, which probably saved [Citi] billions." - Sandy Weill
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25 Feb 2017
“In some decades, nothing happens; in some weeks, decades happen.” - Vladimir Lenin
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22 Feb 2017
With Trump's border patrol hires, US border police now outnumber entire US standing army in 1898, on the eve of the Spanish-American war.
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16 Feb 2017
Warren Buffett on investor value add: "In 60 years of investing, we've found it practically useless to give advice to anyone."
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14 Feb 2017
@jacobwrote The scarcity is artificial. If SF had the density of Paris, population would be 3x more. Housing crisis solved.
13 Feb 2017
A rational housing policy would raise GDP 10%, reduce inequality and price SF houses for under $300k. mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/1…

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Hope the term "female founder" has quietly faded to history by the time my 10 yr daughter starts her first company
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7 Feb 2017
If you want to corrupt the education system, it helps to have a corrupt Congress.
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Former prime minister of Norway was detained at Dulles for an hour b/c he visited Iran in 2014 wjla.com/news/local/former-n…
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30 Jan 2017
Yesterday 83,849 people asked @wikiHow "how to delete an uber account" wikihow.com/Cancel-an-Uber-A…

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