“Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, h...”

“What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.”

“Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from...”

“Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improv...”

“I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.”

“The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a des...”