Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates all social norms for networking. Human beings are just too diverse.

I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world’s gonna be AOK.

And I think that’s a lot of the reason why when you start to fragment your audience, you start to think about what you’re looking for, you’ll go to different spaces, and it parallels what we do as adults. You go to different bars when you’re in the mood for different things. You see different people when you want to go listen to music or when you just want to have a quiet drink with a couple of friends.

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.

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.

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