The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.
– Bobby Davro
Source: Bobby Davro – The measure of success is happiness and…
Quotes
‘They’ named as Merriam-Webster dictionary’s word of the year
“they” as a nonbinary pronoun
Source: ‘They’ named as Merriam-Webster dictionary’s word of the year – CNN
On taking a break
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Source: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – Movie Quotes – Rotten Tomatoes
On Internet as a city
If the contemporary internet is a city, Wikipedia is the lone public park; all the rest of our public spaces are shopping malls—open to the general public, but subject to the rules and logic of commerce.
A public service Web invites us to imagine services that don’t exist now, because they are not commercially viable, but perhaps should exist for our benefit, for the benefit of citizens in a democracy.
Source: Building a More Honest Internet – Columbia Journalism Review
On generating engagement
These are the richest companies in the world, and they have the best engineers in the world. They could fix these problems if they wanted to. Twitter could deploy an algorithm to remove more white supremacist hate speech, but they reportedly haven’t because it would eject some very prominent politicians from their platform. Maybe that’s not a bad thing! The truth is, these companies won’t fundamentally change because their entire business model relies on generating more engagement, and nothing generates more engagement than lies, fear and outrage.