“ It is tempting to say, as my friend suggested, that these online identities are caricatures of the real me. It is certainly true that social media can unleash the cruellest side of human nature. Derek Thompson
“ The mere observation that something is popular, or even that it became so rapidly, is not sufficient to establish that it spread in a manner that resembles a virus. Popularity on the internet is drive… Derek Thompson
“ People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird. Derek Thompson
“ In all sorts of markets—music, film, art, and politics—the future of popularity will be harder to predict as the broadcast power of radio and television democratizes and the channels of exposure grow.… Derek Thompson
“ It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody thinks you are wrong Derek Thompson
“ It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong. Derek Thompson
“ To sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar. Derek Thompson
“ This sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar. Derek Thompson
“ This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: how do you make something new if most people just like what they know? Is it possible to surprise with familiarity? Derek Thompson
“ Most consumers are simultaneously neophilic, curious to discover new things, and deeply neophobic, afraid of anything that is too new. The best hit makers are gifted at creating moments of meaning by… Derek Thompson
“ People gravitate toward products that are bold, but instantly comprehensible: Most Advanced Yet Acceptable--MAYA. Derek Thompson
“ When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking. Derek Thompson
“ Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of many hit-making markets will be fully open, radically transparent, an… Derek Thompson
“ Some consumers buy products not because they are ‘better” in any way, but simply because they are popular. What they’re buying is not just a product, but also a piece of popularity itself. Derek Thompson
“ The trick is learning to frame your new ideas as tweaks of old ideas, to mix a little fluency with a little disfluency—to make your audience see the familiarity behind the surprise. Derek Thompson
“ Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great. Derek Thompson
“ It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it. Derek Thompson
“ In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying click of understanding it. It is called an 'aesthetic aha. Derek Thompson
“ Initially [my favorite books] seem to immerse me in another life, but ultimately they immerse me in me; I am looking through the window into another person’s home, but it is my face that I see in the… Derek Thompson
