(Bloomberg View) -- This week I sit down with technology entrepreneur, activist and writer Anil Dash. He is CEO of Fog Creek Software. Dash was an adviser to the Obama White House's Office of Digital Strategy.
He was the first employee at Six Apart, the innovative blogging software firm behind Typepad. He observed in 2002: “Any new form of electronic communication will first be dismissed as trivial and worthless until it produces a profound result, after which it will be described as obvious and boring.”
Dash explains how the direction of the digital commons has become derailed by those whose goals are not to create but to purposefully prevent online conversations from progressing. He describes his mission as a technology entrepreneur as “making the tech world more humane and ethical.”
Some of his favorite books are referenced here.
SoundCloud: Anil Dash Talks About Tech Industry Ethics by Bloomberg View
You can stream/download the full conversation, including the podcast extras, on Bloomberg, iTunes, Overcast and Soundcloud. Our earlier podcasts can all be found on iTunes, Soundcloud, Overcast and Bloomberg.
Next week, we speak with Bruce Bartlett, domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a Treasury official under George H. W. Bush, author of "The Truth Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Separating Facts From Lies and Stopping Fake News in Its Tracks."
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Barry Ritholtz is a Bloomberg View columnist. He founded Ritholtz Wealth Management and was chief executive and director of equity research at FusionIQ, a quantitative research firm. He blogs at the Big Picture and is the author of “Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy.”
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