“Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge ...” — David Weinberger Quote

Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network.

We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.

If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can't be solved. It's not that we're not good at it; it's the problems cannot be solved because we're not going to agree about these deep questions of how we organize.

The world is deterministic, but it's chaotic and emergent.

Now as far as the organization selling drugs, no. Individuals selling drugs is something else.

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

Restoring the right to vote to individuals who have served their term in prison is also a common-sense public safety measure.

Restoring the rights of individuals who have served their time and reentered society is the right thing to do. Virginia's felon disenfranchisement policy is rooted in a tragic history of voter suppression and marginalization of minorities, and it needs to be overturned.