The tech industry is a rapidly changing place, and we know all too well that there’s no one, true way to do product management.
“Perhaps a symbolic rebalancing of Time’s earlier veneration of the user was the designation, four years later, of Mark Zuckerberg as Time’s Person of the Year.7 When Facebook’s CEO in 2010 took over the badge of honor from “You,” he promised to make the world more open and transparent, echoing the utopian spirit that had previously galvanized users.”
― The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media
― The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media
“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Is it possible that the relationship between humanity and evil is similar to the relationship between the ocean and an iceberg floating on its surface? Both the ocean and the iceberg are made of the same material. That the iceberg seems separate is only because it is in a different form. In reality, it is but a part of the vast ocean.… It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“You see, we—all of us—are alike at our core. From the lowest microorganism to the highest form of Sentient, we share the most basic aspects of all living things from protein folds to cellular organization. The secrets lie within the dual nature of intron and exon—expression and suppression and recombination of these—allowing life to seek infinite forms.”
― Fluency
― Fluency
“Being unable to retrace our steps in Time, we decided to move forward in Space. Shall we never be able to glide back up the stream of Time, and peep into the old home, and gaze on the old faces? Perhaps when the phonograph and the kinesigraph are perfected, and some future worker has solved the problem of colour photography, our descendants will be able to deceive themselves with something very like it: but it will be but a barren husk, a soulless phantasm and nothing more. “Oh for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still!” —Wordsworth Donisthorpe, inventor of the kinesigraph camera”
― Radiance
― Radiance
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