Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded.

It will take a decade or two, but fundamentalism is going to burn itself.

I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.

"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum... In a world of hyperabundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources...

I can't imagine how you can find the discipline to be emotionally detached reporting on a revolution, the winds of which are blowing right down the hallways of the publication you work for. That's like an orthopedic surgeon trying to perform arthroscopic surgery on their own knee. It's possible, but it's hard to see through all the pain.

I think companies over the last 10 years have done a very bad job of explaining to their employees what the intrinsic risks are. All I know is, if you wait until you let the employee go to deal with the issue of how do you communicate to the employee about being let go, it's too late to do anything.