Shirky

Just finished listening to Clay Shirky’s Ontology is Overrated talk from Etech, and it’s great stuff. I’ve been a fan of Clay’s writing for 6 years now, and it’s good to hear him talk for the first time. Not surprisingly, he does that very well, and I love his point about library categorization schemes optimizing for shelf space. What characterizes a great talk is that it’s so obvious once it’s laid out for you.