Snippets from Seth - on the willingness to go the distance, to read the whole story and understand the issues:
[via Pocket, "I get it"]No need to read the whole book, I can just glance over the Cliffs Notes... I get it. No, I already heard about your vacation... remember, I saw the Instagram feed.
Are we going more shallow by having the fire-hose available and on at all times?
Does 200 or 500 friends mean you don't need to really pay attention to any single one?
When the book title is a story in itself, do we need to have it hammered in repeatedly over hundreds of pages?
With over 200 dimensions and metrics - does it make any sense to look at more than pageviews?
Simplification due to sheer volume and complexity - since we can't do it all, it is easier to cut corners?
It that why the allure of "BIG DATA" is so strong? Sure, there is to much to make sense of, so we'll just slap an algorithm on top, do some correlation and there you are!
