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.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.

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.

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

Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?