In the network economy, producing and consuming fuse into a single verb: prosuming. Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its va… - Kevin Kelly

Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.

In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” Simon’s insight is often reduced to “In a world of abundance, the only scarcity is human attention.” Our

We need a bit of top-down as well. Every predominantly bottom-up organization that lasts for more than a few years does so because it becomes a hybrid of bottom up plus some top down. I came to that conclusion through personal experience. I was a co–founding editor of Wired magazine. Editors perform a top-down function — we select, prune, solicit, shape, and guide the results of writers.