January 2011
2 posts
“Facebook runs on a very stiff, crude model of what people are like. It herds...”
– Lev Grossman’s profile on Mark Zuckerberg for Time
I think this is the best analysis of Facebook I’ve ever read. “The social equivalent of liver failure” is a genius phrase.
“If we do not respect ourselves … we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see,...”
– Joan Didion in “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”
I’m convinced this is the real reason no one can “solve” email. The issues involved aren’t simply technical or design matters.