Sublime

Those who embrace the internet’s tendency to copy and seek value that can’t be easily copied (through personalization, embodiment, authentication, etc.) tend to prosper, while those who deny, prohibit, and try to thwart the network’s eagerness to copy are left behind to catch up later.

The foundational trade-off of the internet was to cast scarcity, consensus, and identity aside in favor of freedom and openness.

Making knowledge stable in a changing world is an unwinnable game.

Now if you want to know something, you go online. If you want to make what you’ve learned widely accessible, you go online. Paper will be with us for a long time, but the momentum is clearly with the new, connected digital medium. But this is not merely a shift from displaying rectangles of text on a book page to displaying those rectangles on a sc

you could say that the entire internet is one massive victory for maximalism.

The learning lesson for us all in these debates is this: the writer of digital code establishes the rules of user access to information.