If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.

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.

Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism... When we shift our attention from ‘save newspapers’ to ‘save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

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.

When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'