There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.

The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.

I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.

The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.