Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
counter-democracy—taking civic action by monitoring existing institutions and holding them responsible—
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion but allow very lively debate within that spectrum….”
David Perell • News in the Age of Abundance - David Perell
Stanford’s Michael Bernstein,
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
As long as the assumed purpose of media is to allow ordinary people to consume professionally created material, the proliferation of amateur-created stuff will seem incomprehensible.
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
But that to me is how you use technology, rather than letting it use you.