Steven Johnson
@stevenbjohnson
Writer. (eight books, most recently Future Perfect.) Web site creator1
RT @TheAtlantic: Study: Crowded coffee shops actually help creative thinking http://t.co/98c1MQXq
Lovely new garden store/cafe/event space Shed in Healdsburg (Sonoma): http://t.co/UmAEMTqrUN
100% agree with everything in this post from George Packer on the macro increase of freedom and decline in equality: http://t.co/UIhnycSEk4
RT @elonmusk: Tesla wired the funds to repay the DOE loan today. Only US car company to have fully repaid govt http://t.co/jxHW9YkvPz
So good RT @twitter @meetup, @stackexchange, @tellapart, @jellyhq & @liftapp, adopting Innovator's Patent Agreement. https://t.co/DLcAsgsz0y
RT @koxinga21: @stevenbjohnson wow. Packer intviewed me for that piece an I took great pains to emphasize the implications of that election…
As usual @biz 5 is a year ahead of me. https://t.co/8NP7HchZfw I actually read this at the time and totally forgot about it. (thnx @skuwamoto)
If I were @marissamayer, I'd buy Kickstarter and Foursquare & move Yahoo to NYC. Next-gen media co, out of the shadow of Facebook & Google.
RT @mattyglesias: If I had Tim Cook under oath, I’d be asking when I’m getting a retina iPad mini.
Also: if Silicon Valley is such a libertarian stronghold, why did Obama win there by 42%, 10X his national margin? https://t.co/6MkiI5k8oE
Tech companies share abt 20% of equity with ordinary employees. Rest of American corporations share 2%. Tech sector should be a role model.
Why Silicon Valley is not the second coming of the Gilded Age (my response to Packer's NYer piece on tech politics) https://t.co/6MkiI5k8oE
Why Silicon Valley is not the second coming of the Gilded Age (my response to Packer's NYer piece on tech politics): https://t.co/6MkiI5k8oE
Out this week: adorable kids book called Tiny Pie by my friend Mark Bailey (featuring pie recipe from Alice Waters): http://t.co/fgkY9XcPMi
+1 excited to join a stellar group of early investors in Jelly, the new joint from @biz 5. They're onto something big: http://t.co/bwRmheqdK4
"enough back-to-the-land agrarian hoo-ha to make you ill in your quinoa salad but also beauty here of such ampleness you want to hug a tree"
Lovely, funny piece on Marin, my adopted home, that really captures what's unique (and slightly crazed) about it: http://t.co/KrfLRS1sVC
Very true RT @tomcoates: There has never been anything better than 'Ryan Gosling won't eat his cereal': http://t.co/mcgwukS8b1
Lovely piece by @thomasbeller -- I remember standing in the shadow of that building with Bingham. Million years ago. http://t.co/7lD49nZ9eP
Saw it last week in person. So great. RT @TIME: Behold, New York's glorious new skyline | http://t.co/NxOVuVjaYp
Now reading The Information, by the masterful @JamesGleick. Only 5% in, but highlighting like crazy.
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