In the digital space, the Map creates the Territory.
[F]inance is America’s biggest industry - our biggest business sector. How does banking make its money? In short - oversimplified, yes, but ultimately true - interest. It sells debt… [T]his whole scheme was arranged by 14th Century monarchs as a way of making money by having money, rather than providing value.
Code which is too tricky is too often wrong.
This is the landscape of corporatism: a world not merely dominated by corporations, but one inhabited by people who have internalized corporate values as our own. And even now that corporations appear to be waning in their power, they are dragging us down with them; we seem utterly incapable of lifting ourselves out of their de- pression.
The status quo is selfishness, and the toxically wealthy are our new heroes because only they seem capable of fully insulating themselves from the effects of their own actions.
Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Only two industries refer to their customers as ‘users’: computer design and drug dealing.
Create more value than you capture.
English’s signal virtue is its malleability. If you want to speak a language with jealous guardians, switch to German or French.
