Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

by Reid Hoffman

2010, an article in Slate entitled “Don’t Touch That Dial!”

Socrates warned against the pernicious effects of the written word,

Conrad Gessner tried to compile a list of every book, an effort that led him to conclude that the newfangled printing press had resulted in an overabundance of data that was “confusing and harmful” to the mind. The French statesman Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes wrote that newspapers socially isolated their readers,