Brad Barrish

In this new, DIY, direct to fan, social connected world, there are many many more measures of what one can now aspire to. Indeed, isn’t the promise of the Internet in part the broadening of who can create, and what the results of that creation can potentially be? Isn’t the promise of the Internet the allowance for the actualization of many different types of goals. Macklemore’s is, in fact, not the only one. Maybe it isn’t the important one.

Inspiration, move me brightly

This has been on my mind since I read Mecklemore’s incredible post. I’m glad Andy was the one to write this. 

What's Scott Adams' secret to success? 'Goals are for losers'

What’s Scott Adams’ secret to success? ‘Goals are for losers’

To put it bluntly, goals are for losers. That’s literally true most of the time. For example, if your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you will spend every moment until you reach the goal—if you reach it at all—feeling as if you were short of your goal. In other words, goal-oriented people exist in a state of nearly continuous failure that they hope will be temporary.

Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

The current level of general surveillance in society is incompatible with human rights. To recover our freedom and restore democracy, we must reduce surveillance to the point where it is possible for whistleblowers of all kinds to talk with journalists without being spotted. To do this reliably, we must reduce the surveillance capacity of the systems we use.

Public companies almost inevitably seek to grow profits faster than expected, which means beyond the organic growth that comes from doing what made them great in the first place. In order to gain that profit, it’s typical to hire people and reward them for measuring and increasing profits, even at the expense of what the company originally set out to do.
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