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

If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure.

In the last year, grassroots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the Party doesn't need corporate cash to be competitive. Now it's our Party: 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.

There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.

It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you – that closes the loop on pecuniary self-interest. Customers are always right, but people aren't.

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