Peter Eckersley saw the internet's potential but he also saw its danger -- and he approached both not with dollar signs in his eyes but with a humanitarians level of care and commitment.

“imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” the less remembered is the rest of the stanza: “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness”. When you are just making something to match the competition, one has failed at the starting line.

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We had big dreams for what the internet could be but we've wound up with a digital wild west where big tech can collect, purchase and sell our data with no safeguards. Pessimists want us all to believe that we're stuck with what we've got. I don't buy it. #DataPrivacyDay

Thanks to @stephaniemehta for the fruitful conversation. And to my team @supersetstudio for betting on ethical tech along with me. fastcompany.com/90713221/im-…

To me, the existence of a backlog is a sign of failure. Your communication and feedback process is so awful, that you know in advance you won’t learn what to do next when your build the current thing, so you need a list of contingencies to handle that problem.

Your peers focus more on the analytical stuff (math, models, systems...) because they think it makes them look smarter and less on the softer stuff (mindset, feelings, people...) because they think it makes them look weak. You can join that herd, or differentiate. Choose wisely.