💬 Quotes
”How do you build a social media that functions like a healthy, diverse, equitable neighborhood?”
💬 Gregory Manni
Via ‘Manu’ on Social platforms
”All this made me think that now that we have a handful of activities identified, blogging, bookmarking, clicking, chat, email, etc. one could start from scratch and design a computer that just did these things without layers at all.”
💬 Dave Winer
“There is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
💬 D. H. Lawrence
From Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“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
”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
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)
“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.
”If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
💬 John von Neumann
“It sucks that our kids need to wear masks. It’s also mostly the fault of those fighting to prevent them from being required to.”
💬 Dave Pell
Analog Pens, Apple’s Pencil & Talking Machines: writing & its future
“Why writing’s future is complicated.”
💬 Om
Apparently, it’s not just the future.
“Open platforms are more favorable. If you want to perform a new style of music in Central Park, you can. If you want to do it in Carnegie Hall or Lincoln Center, you need to get the approval of a lot of rich people.”
💬 Dave Winer