Michael Webster

“When I started my first job at the Boston weekly newspaper, I thought I’d be a journalist for the rest of my life. Back in 2000, newspapers were still extremely lucrative; they were rolling in advertising revenue. The online world was such a minor consideration that our newsroom made do with only one internet-connected computer. I had signed on to the industry at the exact moment it started its inexorable collapse, but I couldn’t see it at the time. When it comes to identifying the precise tipping point of future trends, I doubt any of us can.”
― Dorie Clark, Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive

“Furthermore, mass is proportionate to the number of atoms, and critical number could have been equally apt.”
― Thomas C. Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior

“Because people vary and because averages matter, there may be no sustainable critical mass; and the unravelling behavior, or initial failure to get the activity going at all, has much the appearance of a critical mass that is almost but not quite achieved. This is therefore a kindred but separate family of models.”
― Thomas C. Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior

“But whether the measure is the number of people engaged, or the number times the frequency or the length of time they engage in it, or the ratio of the number who do to the number who do not, or the amount of such activity per square foot or per day or per telephone extension, we can call it a “critical-mass” activity and a lot of people will know what we mean.”
― Thomas C. Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior