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Note the implication: You become less of a person when you're wearing a mask or are otherwise anonymous. Shedding the responsibilities of personhood in this way can be quite thrilling, like during Halloween or at a masquerade ball (or while robbing a convenience store!). But it also contributes to the degradation of personhood on the internet — with the ensuing loss of civility we're all familiar with.
Personhood: A Game for Two or More Players | Melting Asphalt
Kevin Simler
It is the same logic Microsoft would follow in the 1990s, when its Windows operating system was similarly run as a partially open system. Like AT&T, Microsoft invited its enemies to connect, to take advantage of an open platform, hoping they wouldn’t notice or worry that the platform came with a spring trap. For as with Bell, once having made one’s bargain with Microsoft, there was no going back.
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu
Simply stated, the value of a business today is the sum of all the money it will make in the future
Zero to One_ Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
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