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As long as communities have mechanisms for weeding out weak contributions, then large self-selecting communities of people in constant communication have a higher probability of matching the best people to the right tasks.

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

A writing example: when I look back in my notes I realize so much of what I write about today I was ruminating about 2-3 years ago. I always knew what I was going to say. I just didn’t have the tools, I didn’t have the maturity, I didn’t have the language or sensitivity to beauty to recognize what that was. So much of what I learned was latent,... See more

And I think one reason why you see so much frustration with Facebook is the same reason you see so much frustration with YouTube and with Twitter. It’s the sense that these things are so powerful to the way that we communicate and live our lives online. And yet, you and I really have no say in how any of them operate.

How will the use of this technology affect how I relate to other people?