Adam Kazwell

Ev (as quoted by Fred Wilson) on the possibility of selling Twitter - "There are four reasons why a company should sell. The management team is tired and does not have it in them to take it to the next level. There is a life-changing financial event for the management team. There is some huge business problem that we can’t solve on our own. A good example of that would be YouTube and the whole sort of intellectual property issue. And, I forget what the fourth one was, but anyway, he articulated the reasons why a company ought to sell. And then he pointed out that we face none of those issues and that we could finance the company and that we have plenty of opportunity to create a sustainable business and that the service was growing. And this was all last fall and he was right about all of that. So, I think that in hindsight, he really provided great leadership around that decision and convinced everybody to say no and I think it was the right decision." - Adam Kazwell

"every decision is based on a time perspective...optimal profile: past-positive: High (roots), future: Moderate High (wings), present-hedonism: Moderate (energy) - Adam Kazwell

Doesn't this go against all the current trends of Twitter (I'm going on a run!), LifeHacker, Zen Habits, etc...Seems like there's evidence on both sides of this argument. - Adam Kazwell

"“Find a happy person, and you will find a project.” – Sonja Lyubomirsky - Adam Kazwell

I want to go to there - Adam Kazwell

Clever stuff from Ji Lee. Took me a few seconds to get #8 - Adam Kazwell

“People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.” - Adam Kazwell

"So what does this mean for entrepreneurs and VCs? Well for one, don't make a frontal assault on a default service. Build or finance a service that can become a new default function in the Internet operating system. And if you have a shot at becoming one of these default functions, invest all of your time and energy attaining and solidifying that default position before working on monetizing it." - Adam Kazwell

interesting set of slides that makes some great observations around "discovery" and "attention" - Adam Kazwell

"I don’t know why we take our worst moods so much more seriously than our best ones, crediting depression with more clarity than euphoria." - Adam Kazwell