Jason Fried: Would you pay to get less email?

If you're not out there swinging for the fences in terms of wanting to be a unicorn and raising a hundred million bucks... you can actually do a lot of things differently, and you can do them on your own schedule, and you can do them for customers versus for investors ... Independence, to me, is the most valuable thing there is.

Real-time conversations remotely are actually way more exhausting than they are in-person. Sitting on Zoom calls sucks! It sucks! I think meetings suck, in general, for the most part.... but Zoom meetings—while Zoom is a good product—it sucks to sit on one.

Uber continues to lose billions every year. That's a shitty business ... The dry cleaner on the corner is a better business than Uber. The pizza shop on the corner is a better business than Uber.

This is not actually just remote work; this is remote work during a pandemic when childcare is unavailable essentially, which is a different kind of remote work.