Love.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
…most of us are so stuck in this notion of how stuff should go that we want to find one of seven stories that matches our narrative. The fact is that most of us are wandering around, scared shitless, wondering what the fuck’s going to happen next. That’s as true when you’re 11 as it is when you’re in your 40s. It’s one reason that people feel very discouraged or disinclined to try new things—they feel like it’s not for them.
The Great Discontent: Merlin Mann
The Great Discontent: Merlin Mann
There are so many incredible things said in this interview. Just read the whole thing. I’m not going to do it justice by quoting it.
Ephemerality goes mainstream, ¡Viva la Snapchat!
Ephemerality goes mainstream, ¡Viva la Snapchat!
moot:
I hope Snapchat’s dramatic rise represents a shift not only in consumer preferences, but also sends a message to service providers that it’s possible to build great, valuable products that embrace both pseudonymity and ephemerality.
That Snapchat offer
There seems to be a lot of folks paying attention to Snapchat rejecting Facebook’s $3B offer.
Loosely speaking I’ve seen negative sentiments like
“This means Facebook is in trouble”
“I knew it, we are in a bubble”
“The Snapchat founders are nuts”
I don’t think it’s any of those things….
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dvdp:
bite marks and scratches
Pulled from the ether via Califone’s ‘Stitches’, an interactive Tumblr-based music video.
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It’s true what he says though - there is no subject position from which it’s ok to talk about inequality - if you’re poor you are doing it out of jealously, if you’re not poor you’re doing it out of guilt/saviour complex, if you are young it’s just a phase, if you’re old you are hankering for times long gone and trying to recapture your youth, if you’re not well educated you just don’t understand the complexity of the situation, if you are well educated you’re in an academic bubble divorced from reality, if your politically apathetic you’re not allowed to complain, if you’re politically active you’re just trying to push your own sectarian agenda…
For every possible type of person there’s an established reason why your opinions on inequality are invalid. That’s not an accident.