(Avoiding) A Digital Dark Age

Under the startlingly mis-named "How I Failed", Tim O'Reilly looks back at how the company has been built and where things could have been better. Don't get me wrong - I believe failure is a necessity as is understanding and learning from our failures. But this essay is about so much more, including impassioned and valuable arguments about the harm that DRM does. As he says, "[L]ocking books up in proprietary file formats is a path toward a digital dark age."