"Graeber’s Debt: The First Five Thousand Years [...] Large parts of the book could better be called Commerce: The First 5,000 Years or Exchange: The First 5,000 Years."

"The indiscriminate gushing over the age of mass collaboration has obscured these differences for now, but they won't for long. And then, I would guess, amateur production may go the way of the amateur olympics. But maybe not - let's hope that non-profit stages stay that way so that the economists' misunderstanding of Wikipedia can continue."

critique of Bruce Sterling's "Information wants to be worthless".

let's take three categories of small businesses that immigrants tend to concentrate on: corner shops, dry cleaners, and doughnut shops. What do all these have in common?