One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

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.

Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.

Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

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