People often joke you can’t change the world with a tweet. But it’s more apparent now than ever that you can. The problem is, in practice, a meme at rapid global scale doesn’t often look like freedom, or justice, or prosperity. It looks like a billion people doing the same thing, at the same time, in a temporary state of madness.
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I can sense that Twitter is hijacking my natural drive to earning prestige from people I know and replacing it with an insatiable hunger to compete for status from internet strangers.
- Nick deWilde, To Tweet Or Not To Tweet?
The great thing about communication is that most people are terrible at it, because they never take it seriously as a skill to develop.
- Marc Andreessen, Marc Andreessen's Guide to Career Planning
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