Jack Shares Things

Things I find interesting or feel like writing about

Notes &

I’ve heard hackers brag that they could have built Twitter over a weekend. Underlying this boast is a misunderstanding of what is truly impressive. Coming up with Twitter required only a small amount of technical knowledge. The hard part was the social insight to realize such a tool would be useful. This is a social insight the bragging hackers didn’t have.
Michael Nielsen » Shirky’s Law and why (most) social software fails