Quotes from "Burn Book -Kara Swisher"

Here are some interesting quotes from Kara Swisher's memoir "Burn Book".

I leave you to your own devices...I mean that; your phone is the best relationship you all have now, the first thing you pick up in the morning and the last thing you touch at night.

You invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

"You are nobody if you are are not somebody.com" was the saying in early .com days.

Storytelling is trying to come up with an idea that is insightful in terms of giving you a different insight into how things work or is amusing.

Between speech and truth, he chose speech. Between speed and perfection, he chose speed. Between scale and safety, the chose scale.

Tech has always been a mirrortocracy, full of people who liked their own reflection so much that they only saw value in those that looked the same.

"Prick to Productivity Ratio" (P2P), that's neither scientific nor is it particularly fair. Its a way to quantify powerful people. You don't want to be zero on "prick" - you may NOT be moving fast. You don't want the right side of ratio to be higher, things will catch up with you.

Think of yourself as dead. you have lived your life. Now, take waht's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness. - Marcus Aurelius.

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