I originally sent this via email, to a painstakingly curated list of emails that I recognized. How fitting (and funny, at least to me) that I would immediately be reminded that manually addressing people is error-prone, and that I should have just tweeted it instead, because then the people who are interested in you will find it. Here is the mail that I sent:

I'm flying the coop on friday, october 24th.

Twitter is among my favorite things in the world, and joining here was about the best decision I ever made. I got to work with great people on something worthwhile, and had fun doing it-a rare privilege. Thank you all for so teaching me so much, and for the great times we've shared in and out of work. I hate to disagree with @rk, but building a company isn't a sprint, or a marathon, or indeed, a relay. It's more like team decathelon, and I think I'm finished with my events. I'm (probably foolishly) not going take the advice that everyone has given me and take some time off: I'll be starting work fairly soon at secret.

I'll still be in the office for a little over a week, and I'll do drinks 5PM on tuesday 10/21 at Oddjob. Alumni welcome! Please come! If you want to get at me after that, my email's above, or you can hit me up on this twitter thing.

much love to all, matt

PS: figuring out who to send this to was surprisingly hard-I'm sure I've forgotten many peeps. So if you got this second-hand, it was not a lack of regard that caused it, but rather me failing at email.

I've always been terrible at relationship maintenance, relying on serendipity to bring me back together with the people I care about. I _really_ want to avoid that this time, because I have had such a great time and made such good friends at twitter. So any of you who want to, please ping me anytime! I won't be _that_ busy. I hope to be much more deliberate about who I spend time with over the next few years, and many of you who worked with me for so long are a part of that.