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Collaboration is not an absolute good.

Clay Shirky

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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Academic
Scientist
Technology Evangelist
Writer
Columbia
Missouri
Collaboration
Absolutes
Absolute
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