Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal.

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

Collaboration is not an absolute good.

There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.