An impromptu micro blog by Jack Baty.

You’re not selling a commodity unless you want to.
Comments (View)
The willingness to swap personal productivity for connection is just that: it is an ethical choice that asserts that the bonds of connection, today and over time, are more important — not just abstractly, but in the most concrete way — than making headway on this piece of work, right now.
Comments (View)
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Comments (View)
Opponents who dismiss this as wussy naïveté do so at their own risk. They at once call attention to the expiring shelf life of their own Clinton-Bush-vintage panaceas and lull themselves into underestimating Mr. Obama’s political killer instincts.
Comments (View)
The net is an unending NOW of moments and distractions and wonderments and puzzlements and rages. Asking someone riding its currents to undertake some kind of complex dance before she can hand you her money is a losing proposition.
Comments (View)
If you unironically regard public comments on an RSS feed as “conversations” with “friends,” you either need a dictionary or better friends.
Comments (View)
To all of you racist homophobic non-Californian dumb fucks who find that annoying? Tough shit. We outsmarted you. We out-spent you. And now for the next eight years we’re going to be running this country. We’re going to give equal rights to gay people, fund stem-cell research, teach evolution, take down the fence on the Mexican border, and make sure abortion stays safe and legal. We’re going to pull out of Iraq, shut down Gitmo, and stop torturing people. And yeah. A black dude with a Muslim-sounding name and degrees from Columbia and Harvard is going to be in charge. So sit back down, strap yourself in, and shut the fuck up, crackers.
Comments (View)
I despair that we Americans will ever approach such style with our words, which march out like baked potatoes.
Comments (View)
Elephant Paints Self Portrait (via )
Comments (View)
The time you spend away from people is what allows you to be interesting to each other again. 
Comments (View)
  1. Whenever presented with evidence of a transitional species, claim that it’s not, and ask for another transitional species between it and the other species.
Comments (View)
There’s a world of difference between queue-able and interruptive media, and we bridge it at our peril.
Comments (View)
I asked him if he’d come up with a few options. And he said “No, I will solve your problem for you. And you will pay me. And you don’t have to use the solution; if you want options, go talk to other people.
— Interview with Steve Jobs about Paul Rand
Comments (View)
The MacBook Air isn’t so much a laptop as a couple of sheets of paper stapled together that just happens to run Mac OS X.
Comments (View)
Social networking will become a ubiquitous feature of online life. That does not mean it is a business
Comments (View)