It's a little bit like Tesla and Edison, isn't it? Or at least the late-90's-technology-community mythology about them. The world has smart people who invent n

It's a little bit like Tesla and Edison, isn't it? Or at least the late-90's-technology-community mythology about them. The world has smart people who invent new things and have interesting life stories and cool products (Tesla). The world also has smart people who invent new things and have interesting life stories and cool products and make a lot of money with razor-sharp execution (Edison). Even as folks love to lionize Tesla, it seems to me that this community is more interested in entrepreneurs than inventors. This was a fun story to read because it did a good job conveying how everything everyone builds ultimately has a history — there are interesting cultural trends that, if you watch them, can help explain why things are the way they are today. (At least that's the theory. To be honest, knowing a fair amount about the history of TXTMob does not give me a good sense for where Twitter is going today.)