Quotes Relating to my Life!

     I decided to start off my summer reading with Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky because I wanted to start filling up my English notebook. But I'm glad I made that decision because the first chapter already caught my attention as it started off with a story about a stolen Blackberry cellphone. It clearly demonstrated the convenience of technology and how humans used it to shape our society.
      A quote that I related to was: “If you want to organize the work of even dozens of individuals, you have to manage them. As organizations grow into the hundreds or thousands, you also have to manage the managers and eventually to manage the managers’ managers” (19). This statement came out to me because I saw it as another example of how marching bands are organized. Unlike managers, there are student leaders such as drum majors, captains and section leaders. I'm currently the assistant drum major in my band and I see how information is distributed amongst the leaders. It starts from the band director who gives the information to the drum majors who then send it out to captains and section leaders to give to their sections. It's all in the matter of organization and how the band director manages the main student leaders by cooperation. Which is what I believe is what Shirky is trying to convey in her  concepts about human cooperation making it possible for large groups to take action and achieve great accomplishments. In marching band for example, the leaders manage one hundred-fifty members to make sure everything runs smoothly so they can give outstanding performances!
      I figured by relating concepts and statements from novels into my life it makes it easier to further grasp the idea of what I'm reading and what the author is conveying to the reader.