“Relatability is rewarded, but at what cost? Because now I'm sharing so many personal details about myself with six million people, who can in turn, weaponize that and use it against me.”— Brittany Broski, papermag.com
“I think the greatest freedom that I’ve gained is the fact that I no longer have to worry about what happens tomorrow, because I’m happy with what I’ve done today.”— Kieran Fitzgerald, Oliver Stone, Edward Snowden, Edward Snowden, imdb.com
“All too often, we feel that we are not living the fullness of our lives because we are not expressing the fullness of our gifts.”— Elle Luna, amazon.com
“For everybody and every thing conspire to make me as contented as possible in it; yet I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“If your Lordship vouchsafe the acceptance, ’tis yours, if the Reader can pick out either use or content, ’tis his, and I am pleased. Example being the publique, and your Lorships favor the private aime, of your humbly devoted”— Francis Drake, international.loc.gov
“Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coercion, brainwashing, and manipulation.”— Terence McKenna, amazon.com
“As a standalone source of revenue, micropayments face several structural problems. Chief among them is Arrow’s information paradox, according to Tony Haile, CEO of Scroll, a forthcoming subscription service that will strip ads out of participating publishers’ sites. The paradox holds that a consumer…”— Max Willens, digiday.com
“Most digital brands have sought scale over connections. We, as a company, are entirely about connections and actual engagement with our audience. So for any show that we do, we can bring in Barstool as a marketing platform and deliver an audience.”— Erika Nardini, digiday.com
“There are four reasons the pivot to video has failed: faulty metrics for measuring the audience; trusting other platforms, like Facebook, to do the hard work of distribution; low-quality video production and weak technological support for video content; and, ultimately, a failure to effectively turn…”— Heidi Moore, cjr.org
“The way that a story can make change is so much faster than the way that politics can make change. You create culture that has a story in it that says something as radical as ‘trans people are people’ and then laws follow.”— Jeff Bezos, recode.net
“Until you appreciate what you currently have, more won’t make your life better.”— Benjamin Hardy, medium.com
“If we were to write a profile for humankind, our interest would be that we love to talk about ourselves. How do I know this? Let’s use Google Earth as an example. When this incredible piece of software came out, a platform that had taken images of every corner of the earth to allow us to travel and…”— Michael Scantleury, thedrum.com
“The future of marketing isn't in engaging influencers for over-staged, over-styled, made-to-look-authentic branded content. It's an incredibly deceptive tactic, sure to follow a downward spiral from initial excitement to the ultimate letdown. The future of marketing must be one where brands look to…”— David Hunegnaw, adage.com
“What Vice is doing is something a lot of the digital-first community is starting to, which is to get beyond talking about simply delivering content and to a place where they talk about what impact the content has.”— Noah Mallin, digiday.com
“I think everyone develops to what they measure and what is told to be valuable. If you are a recirculation company, you optimize for clicks, because a click is what makes me money—not necessarily what happens after the click. And that lends itself to the most clickbait stuff we can possibly do to ma…”— Tony Haile, contently.com