Harper Reed Quotes
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People are building apps that are doing super-crazy things, and there's a lot of talk about modeling and microtargeting. Facebook can predict when people are going to break up, and Target is able to predict if a woman is pregnant before she knows just based on the type of lotion she bought.
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Instagram is amazing, and I enjoy sharing photos there. However, I don't think it is where my photos will go to live.
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Advice is always awesome because it never makes any sense when you compare it all together. It always contradicts other advice. I love advice.
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You can tell charlatans when they say 'big' in front of everything.
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All of this conversation about chat and assistance lays the groundwork for what I would look at as the future of commerce.
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I find that I often forget that people come from all over. In interfaces, products, experiences, and building for people, we always forget that people are not us.
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I wonder which is ultimately more creepy: shopping at Amazon or using Facebook?
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I try and wake up relatively early. I listen to some music and check Twitter. I also make sure I weigh myself and check how long I slept. I do that because knowing that data seems better than not knowing it.
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I'm a white male in power. In many cases, I'm the enemy.
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I've had a lot of bosses that I didn't agree with, but the worst boss was very much me myself. So, I can't let myself slack off, and if I do slacking off, I'm the one that's yelling at myself. I've worked with a lot of different employers, and none of them have been as aggressive as I have been.
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My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things.
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The information diet of a senior campaign staffer is insane. We were all addicted to our chosen email delivery devices and were aggressively tethered to them. It made sense and wasn't an issue during the campaign because of the importance of the situation. However, once the campaign was over and we were successful, the information flow dried up.
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I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes those paths are horrible and sad, and sometimes they are hopeful and amazing. Not always are they paths to the future, and sometimes the paths are actually about the past but make sense when applied to the future. Books are amazing.
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What I do think is important is this idea of a privacy native where you grow up in a world where the values of privacy are very different. So it's not that I'm against privacy but that the values around privacy are very different for me and for people who are younger than my parent's generation, for whom it's weird to live in a glass house.
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The first thing is - and this is very important - I support the unmonitored use of the Internet for everyone. It doesn't matter what country you're in or what you do for a living - everyone should have the right to an unmonitored Internet.
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Taking time to do something slower than you normally would is a privilege that should not be ignored.