To start, you really have to understand what design means, and in the context of a web product, it can mean a lot of things. For Quora, it means designing for whys (the product) and taking the most straightforward route possible for the hows (the interactions). Quora on Designing an Organization That Designs Better Products…

Dorsey may belong to Gen X, but he is a throwback to a kind of heartland idealism we associate with earlier generations. His optimism flows mostly from a St. Louis-bred spirit about our common life, democracy, and human potential. He claims his inventions all aim at the same goal: a society that works more efficiently…

…instead of telling his students to answer the question, “What do I want to say?” he tells his students to answer a different question: “What do I want to know?” So he asks his students to make work that takes them along that path to knowing, and to make art that helps them know, and…

The Internet remains the best place to develop because it is the Platform With No Platform Vendor. Every generation of developers learns this for themselves. Dave Winer quoted in Twitter to Client Developers: We’ll Take it From Here: Tech News and Analysis

Most conferences are organized around mass, not around individual interactions that last. It takes an effort to seek out conversations that matter. Seth’s Blog: Your SXSW agenda (or any conference, for that matter)

Why do we all meekly allow the speed at which we access the Internet to be much slower when we send than when we receive? …perhaps, is it because they want us to be consumers, consuming material sent to us rather than producers, creating our own content… I Have Seen the Future and I Am…