- “The desire to invert a structure of injustice—to inflict on those we take to be the bearers of privilege the disregard they have inflicted on others—is one I very much understand, one I feel in myself. But it is always ethically suspect to speak of any human experience as irrelevant to our common human experience; it is always, let me go... See more

That's not why we come to Twitter. This place is the digital Colosseum and we want to see blood. But it's increasingly obvious to me that we spend our time fighting here about sensational stuff that no one can do anything about, because we feel impotent to make real change in our own lives.

 Twitter is a political and sociological problem—a problem rooted in conflicts over values—not an engineering problem. It requires a different set of skills.