44 Quotes by Jeff Jarvis

What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us

Your company is the company it keeps.

We no longer need companies, institutions, or government to organize us. We now have the tools to organize ourselves. We can find each other and coalesce around political causes or bad companies or talent or business or ideas.

This practically unlimited supply of advertisers in a fluid marketplace appears to be a new economic model that may insulate Google from some of the dynamics of an economy built on mass and scarcity. Google has its own economy.

Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.

Where some see a new world disorder, others see the opportunity to bring organization.

What made the voice of the people somehow less important than the paid professional journalist?

Now that the actual number appears to be lower, that doesn't make this any less of a tragedy or any less of a horrendous failing of our government. Now it's a tragic revision. So it's not as bad as we thought, so it's OK? Of course it's not.

Now that's a case of the pot calling the kettle metal.