We Roared. We Were One Big Animal

Open Platforms And Experimental Amateurs Eventually Beat Out The Spendy, Slick Pros. Relying On Incumbents To Produce Your Revolutions Is Not A Good Strategy. They're Apt To Take All The Stuff That Makes Their Products Great And Try To Use Technology To Charge You Extra For It, Or Prohibit It Altogether.

If You've Never Programmed A Computer, You Should. There's Nothing Like It In The Whole World. When You Program A Computer, It Does Exactly What You Tell It To Do. It's Like Designing A Machine — Any Machine, Like A Car, Like A Faucet, Like A Gas-hinge For A Door — Using Math And Instructions. It's Awesome In The Truest Sense: It Can Fill You With Awe.

Conversation Is King. Content Is Just Something To Talk About.

The United States Of America Was A Pirate Nation For The First One Hundred Years Of Its Existence, Ripping Off The Patents And Trademarks Of The Imperial European Powers It Had Liberated Itself From By Blood. By Keeping Their Gdp At Home, The U.s. Revolutionaries Were Able To Bootstrap Their Nation Into An Industrial Powerhouse. Now, It Seems, Their Descendants Are Bent On Ensuring That No Other Country Can Pull The Same Trick Off.

Like All Security, Privacy Is Hard.