Ian Vanagas

Perhaps no other civilization, either in antiquity or today, was so fond of legible and governable social realities (than the Roman empire).

When things are innovative, nobody really cares what they look like. 

You should be able to easily see connections between all of the web pages you have open at once, any subset of them, and explore them / navigate through them visually.

We are on a trend “inward”, where capital, our proxy for GDP, is better served deployed into things that generate more capital, instead of things that generate production.

Games have 1. variable outcomes, 2. frequency, and 3. sense of control. These create addiction, not flow.

Given these realities, I find the furthest extreme of the free and open source philosophy not only unethical in its own right in that it incentivizes wide-scale consumption over production and thus impoverishes the software world, but divorced from reality in that it misunderstands the economic forces responsible for the production of software (and... See more

He defines creative activities is anything helping create something new and lasting.