“Manage your energy, not your time” – Tony Schwartz This is the quote that made Tony Schwartz famous. And it is one, that I believe best represents a truly efficient lifestyle in the 21st century the best. And yet, living “manage your energy, not your time” is incredibly hard, at least for me. It probably [...]

Here is a secret right off the bat and I hope it isn’t too odd. One of the things I fuss about a lot (especially for Buffer copy, for example our welcome email if you sign up!) are words; very simple words in fact. Should it say “Hi” or “Hey.” Should it be “cheers” or [...]

There is no doubt that you have heard about the uproar on Twitter and the blogosphere: Google Reader is shutting down. As of July 1, 2013 Google will discontinue Google Reader and shut down the site. A lot of people, who have been using Buffer with Google Reader got in touch with us yesterday asking [...]

“I’m not really a creative person”, always struck me as an odd sentence. Could it really be that some of us are born to be more creatively gifted than others? If so, I thought at first, that’s definitely a downer. In school, what was considered “being creative”, like writing or drawing nice pictures was never [...]

Recently I sat down with Brendan Baker, one of the smartest people I’ve come across here in Silicon Valley. Clearly his brainpower exceeds mine by far and Brendan started explaining about a few things that I somehow always deemed true, but could never quite back up with great arguments or put my finger on: “Your [...]

If someone tweets at your company Twitter account – how long should it be until you respond to their question or mention? That question, I believe, is one of the most important ones to answer when it comes to interacting with your users and customers. Recently, we made a big change here at Buffer to [...]

This month, I was kindly invited to speak at a conference in Las Vegas. In the audience of my panel session were two people, Marc and Angel Chernoff that I’ve admired for a long time. When I was lucky enough to be able to get dinner with them afterwards, I told them that I’d have [...]

Wanting to change yourself and better yourself is a beautiful and inspiring thing I believe. And it turns out that’s also how most other people think: 50% of all Americans for example set themselves a new year’s resolution . That’s pretty amazing! What’s not so great is that according to the researcher Richard Wiseman 88% [...]

2012 is almost over and it’s been an absolutely crazy year here at Buffer. We launched a brand new iPhone app and web app and tons of new app integrations. Amidst developing all these new things, our team has also built in some nifty secret hacks and lesser known ways to use Buffer. To make [...]