Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.

A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.