My Grinnell education didn’t prepare me directly for the work that I’m doing, but it did give me the tools that I needed to focus my curiosity. Hilary Mason Read Quote
I’m a huge fan of the liberal arts approach of teaching you to think, analyze, and communicate, then sending you out into the world to cause trouble. Hilary Mason Read Quote
Creating things that people want to tie into their identity is the best way to make them spread. Hilary Mason Read Quote
Nobody really cares about short links, but people do care about saving and sharing content. Hilary Mason Read Quote
When you start at Bitly, you go through this emotional cycle, where first you go, ‘Oh my God, this data is amazing.’ But then you start looking at it, and you conclude that humanity is completely doomed. Because what people read is cats and Bieber and celebrity gossip and that stuff. Hilary Mason Read Quote
I hope that, in the future, data is used to empower people and not just for marketing purposes. Hilary Mason Read Quote
You really need to have a lot of empathy for the work you’re doing and the people who you’re ultimately trying to help, whether that’s a business colleague, a boss, or, ultimately, the user of the software you’re building. Hilary Mason Read Quote
