Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.

Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.

What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.

Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

LinkedIn is very good for browsing relationships and hooking into your contacts' networks. It re-connected me with high-level execs I hadn't talked to for some time, who then helped me close various deals.

The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.