The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

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.

A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.

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

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

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