"You can­not fight dark­ness by resolv­ing to erad­i­cate dark­ness. Instead you must com­mit to gen­er­at­ing light. You can­not fight the cold by resolv­ing to erad­i­cate the cold. Instead you must com­mit to gen­er­at­ing heat. Sim­i­larly, con­sump­tion can­not be fought by resolv­ing to erad­i­cate con­sump­tion (as I had), but only by com­mit­ting to cre­ation, to the cre­ative act (which I hadn’t)."

"If the “social” web can only rep­re­sent arbi­trary facts about people’s beliefs and inter­ests, then it’s not social."

"Let’s acknowledge the irony: the functional difference between “reposting” something versus clicking a Like button is rather minuscule: both actions ultimately rebroadcast the content to others. But the irony here is further amplified because the idea itself being “rebroadcasted” is that Like fails to engage in any literary exchange of substance, feeding a 'narrow range of thought.'"

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Nice post about how @jesselavery thought through a recent Social Media Clense:

Nice post about how @jesselavery thought through a recent Social Media Clense:

It feels like Twitter is aimlessly running with two general goals right now:

Make money!
Get more users!

"Notice this: the people with the best stock don’t even want to deal with more flow." — More Stock, Less Flow