In a NYTimes opin­ion piece today, Ezra Klein teas­es: “The Quak­er way has a lot to teach us about social media.”

You have to scroll deep into the arti­cle to find the Quak­er con­nec­tion. Spoil­er: it comes from let­ting in silence and let­ting delib­er­a­tion be a slow­er process. He links to a Rex Ambler book on the Quaker​books​.org web­site (yea!) but it’s out of stock and not show­ing up (doh!) [Update: they got the link work­ing first thing Mon­day morn­ing after I gave them the heads-up, huzzah!] 

Klein also talked about Quak­ers in August, in a con­ver­sa­tion with William MacAskill on Effec­tive Altru­ism (a con­cept about which I’m extreme­ly skep­ti­cal), when they talked about Quak­er abo­li­tion­ist Ben­jamin Lay. He obvi­ous­ly has us on the mind. It’d be kind of cool if Klein went beyond talk­ing about Quak­ers to talk­ing with Quak­ers (my DMs are always open).