PA 2/19 On changing the world: "I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful.
Somehow you can see a direct connection between these rituals, which are a kind of communty-building activity, albeit silly and dangerous, and the community-outreach efforts by these people to do something valuable for society".
They were born twenty months apart, to middle-class families, and both had "spirited, big-hearted mothers who encouraged us to do something valuable and interesting with our lives".
In the 2010 book 'Open Government: collaboration, transparency and participation in practice', David G Robinson, Harlan Yu, and Edward W Felten write: "When government puts data online, someone, somewhere will do something valuable and innovative with it".
"I did a magazine essay called Gorilla Tactics and it made a difference, I was like 'Wow I'm not just doing entertainment if I do this kind of thing I can do something valuable'".
Having focused on getting the eyeballs of users for so long, maybe they will now do something valuable with them, other than trying to extract the maximum amount of advertising revenue from each person.
