Vincent Gable’s Blog

September 30, 2008

The Hollow Friends

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― Vincent Gable on September 30, 2008

…there is actual precedent for creating value for people with technology. Think of word processors, databases, spreadsheets, web browsers, web publishing, search engines, email, etc. Social media is the first major computing revolution that as far as I can tell, has produced essentially nothing.

But the social media craze is perfectly fitting in a society where producing nothing has been in fashion for years. Mortgages without credit. Profit without product. Riches without risk. Oops.

Hank Williams

And here’s Marlon Brando reading The Hollow Men in Apocalypse Now.

2 Comments »

  1. If you can’t immediately point to a few direct benefits you personally get from participating in Linked In, then why do it?

    Jeff Atwood on linkedin

    Comment by Vincent Gable — September 30, 2008 @ 10:42 am

  2. I gave it plenty of time to be useful, but it just hasn’t done anything at all for my life.

    Russell Beattie on linkedin

    Comment by Vincent Gable — September 30, 2008 @ 10:43 am

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