The Filter Bubble - Eli Pariser [97]
I’ve saved the greatest and most personal debts for last. I’ve benefited immeasurably in my life from a string of great teachers: to name a few, Karen Scott, Doug Hamill, and Leslie Simmons at Lincolnville Central School; Jon Potter and Rob Lovell at Camden-Rockport High; and Barbara Resnik and Peter Cocks at Simon’s Rock, among others. Whatever perspicuity I have I owe these folks. And I’m lucky enough to have some truly wonderful friends. I can’t list all of you here, but you know who you are. I’m especially grateful for the support and love I’ve received—in good times and bad—from Aram and Lara Kailian, Tate Hausman, Noah T. Winer, Nick Arons, and Ben and Beth Wikler. It’s one of my goals in life to be as good a friend as you’ve been to me.
My family has also encouraged me and sharpened my thinking every step of the way. Big hugs and even bigger thank-yous to my mother, Dora Lievow, my father and stepmother, Emanuel Pariser and Lea Girardin, and my sister, Ya Jia. Eben Pariser, my brother, not only egged me on but made amazing pizza when I was flagging and helped finalize the manuscript. He’s as good a brother as he is a musician (check out his band, Roosevelt Dime, and you’ll see how high that compliment is). Bronwen Rice may not be an official family member, but I’ll include her here anyway: Bronwen, thanks for keeping me true to myself all of these years.
There are four final people whose generosity, intelligence, and love I appreciate more than I can fully express:
Wes Boyd took a big gamble on a twenty-one-year-old, trusted me more than I trusted myself, and mentored me through eight years at MoveOn. This book draws on many of our conversations over the years—there’s no one I enjoy thinking with more. Peter Koechley, my true friend and coconspirator, encouraged me when the going got rough—in the writing process and outside of it. I’m grateful to have a friend who is simultaneously so talented and so decent. Vivien Labaton: I have no sufficient superlatives, so I’ll just go with the colloquial. You’re the best. And finally, there’s Gena Konstantinakos. Gena, you’ve borne the brunt of this project more than anyone—the months of working weekends and late nights and early mornings at the office, the stress during revisions, and the constantly extended deadlines. You took it in stride and then some, giving me pep talks, helping me sort out chapters on note cards, and cheering me on all the way. I’m still amazed, some days, to wake up with someone so smart, beautiful, talented, principled, and good-spirited in my life. I love you.
FURTHER READING
Alexander, Christopher, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. New York: Verso, 1991.
Battelle, John. The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture. New York: Portfolio, 2005.
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. New York: Penguin, 1973.
Bishop, Bill. The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.
Bohm, David. On Dialogue. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Conley, Dalton. Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent