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Is it the industry, or is it ‘the new kids on the block’?
“One of these decades the tech industry is going to grow the fuck up and stop insisting on being the boy wonder and respect what has been accomplished before they showed up. Then we won’t have to constantly be retooling and ripping up the pavement and starting over.”
💬 Dave Winer ( [@dave](https://micro.blog/dave) )
Coincidentally I ended this post ruminating on generational questions ….
“Boomers created the internet and the web and did not turn themselves into money-grubbing billionaires - like GenX and Millenials do today.”
“Now, who’s destroying the world?”
“We want to thank Jeff Bezos for going to space because while he was up there we were organizing a union,”
💬 Chris Smalls
I often listen to a podcast or read an article and at the end of it my reaction is 'yes … and' or 'yes … but’.
IF I feel sufficiently moved - a link might get posted to my Thought Stream, together …
one more test with feeling
💬 ME
a second test with more feeling
💬 ME again
“a third test with so much feeling, I really don’t know which way to turn.”
“testing testing - again”
testing testing
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“The point isn’t just to make money—it’s to change the systems that human attention flows through. You can’t understand Substack without understanding this.”
“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. “I learn from other people’s.”
… or something like that. Lots of variations of this over the interwebs. Who knows if Otto was the real source. Regardless, I like it.