{"id":2856,"date":"2011-08-02T22:03:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T02:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2011-08-02T22:03:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T02:03:27","slug":"you-know-whats-cool-basic-human-decency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/08\/02\/you-know-whats-cool-basic-human-decency\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 &#8220;You Know What\u2019s Cool? Basic Human Decency&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/07\/30\/humbug\/\">Paul Carr:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At first, Web 2.0 seemed like a perfect two-way street. Brilliant entrepreneurs who genuinely wanted to change the world built services that we all wanted to use. They became rich, and our lives became better connected. We were all in it together.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward just a handful of years, though, and something has gone very, very wrong with that particular social contract. We users have kept our side of the bargain \u2014 dutifully tagging our friends in artificially-aged photos, and checking in at bars, and writing reviews of restaurants. We\u2019ve canceled our newspaper subscriptions, and instead spend our days clicking on slideshows of \u201ccelebrities who look like their cats\u201d or obsessively tracking trending topics on Twitter. We\u2019ve stopped buying books published by professional houses and instead reward authors who write, edit and distribute their own electronic works through self-publishing platforms. We\u2019ve even handed the keys to our cars and our homes to strangers.<\/p>\n<p>On the face of it, the entrepreneurs have continued down the same track too: inventing ever more Disruptive companies to further improve the world, and in doing so enjoying multi-billion dollar valuations and all the trappings of fame and fortune. Even richer have grown the angels, super-angels and VCs who carefully nurture young entrepreneurs, molding them into the next breed of Mark Zuckerbergs and Sean Parkers, reminding their charges that \u201cwhat\u2019s cool\u201d is a billion dollars \u2014 and that every new user acquired is another dollar added to their eventual high score.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I love Paul Carr. It took me a while but, now that I&#8217;ve left the valley, I wish these great minds would do more meaningful things with venture capital dollars than make photos look pretty and allow you to draw moustaches onto friend&#8217;s faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Carr: At first, Web 2.0 seemed like a perfect two-way street. 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