“The FTC’s narrative is that Mark Zuckerberg isn’t very good at developing technology, so he built a monopoly instead.”
💬 Matt Stoller
“How we spend our time is how we spend our days. How we spend our days is how our life goes. How our life goes determines whether we thought it was worth living."
💬 Keith Yamashita
“We no longer interact. We transact.”
Om Malik
”To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments.”
💬 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
On Finding The Miraculous In The Mechanical
“In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”
💬 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
via the inimitable Maria Popova
💬 Dorothy Parker
Interesting thread re Electron if you are tracking the 1Password debate.
“I think the history of tabs serves as a fascinating case study of how Apple’s neglect for its own UI frameworks assisted the rise and acceptance of cross-platform frameworks."
💬 Francisco Tolmasky
“Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.”
💬 E. B. White
(via Stowe Boyd)
💬 Ansel Adams
“Companies transitioning from full-time employees, or opting to use freelancers instead of hiring full-time employees, are not doing so because freelance talent is more skilled or talented than employees. It is a massive cost-saving measure.”
💬 Stowe Boyd
Exactly Right.