The Web provided me with a much needed realization that information cannot be fully separated from its presentation, and showed me something I knew w… - Erik Naggum

When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody does matters. … The more selective you are in the feedback you accept, the more insane your reasoning will become as you will necessarily reject corrective feedback that would have led to better reasoning.

"Code sharing" is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need.

People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millennia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.