It is what it is…
via Gizmodo
Ireland’s newest stamp features an entire short story
Don’t know whether to moan we should have a stamp this cool in the United States or wonder whether a postage stamp is the medium for calling attention to literature.
“The government is cutting music programmes in schools and slashing Arts grants as gleefully as a morbidly American kid in Baskin Robbins. So if only to stick it to the man, isn’t it worth fighting back in some small way? So write your damn book. Learn a Chopin prelude, get all Jackson Pollock with the kids, spend a few hours writing a Haiku. Do it because it counts even without the fanfare, the money, the fame… .”
Faced With Overload, a Need to Find Focus
Here’s a radical proposal: Don’t check your e-mail at all tomorrow morning. Turn it off entirely. Instead, devote a designated period of uninterrupted time to a task that really matters.
At the New York Times, Tony Schwartz articulates a less dogmatic—and to my mind more realistic—kind of Sabbath. His practice is to work, not to unplug totally, and to free his attention from unnecessary distraction.
I like the “Quantified Self” idea, but using that name to describe recording one’s life is like calling a wedding a “coital contract event”.
— Anil Dash (@anildash) May 2, 2013
The way to mend the bad world, is to create the right world. #TheConductofLife #Worship
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (@dailyemerson) May 2, 2013
Worth Thinking About
RT @wsj: Today’s smartphones have roughly the same computing power as a desktop computer from 2005. on.wsj.com/12Yx2Cq
— Open Culture (@openculture) May 2, 2013
Forget your tech gadgets at 'digital detox' camp
CNN reports news of a “digital detox” camp.
Reminds me of a device I used at rehab, Myomi I think, but it was nowhere near as cool as this. Read more.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. Victor Frankl#spirituality
— Frederic Brussat (@FredericBrussat) April 30, 2013
