Facebook Is Not Your Story

Your life is a story.

It’s a wild kind of story – not only are you the author, but nature is the author; other people are authors; loss and love are authors; hate and greed and war are authors; grace and fortune are authors.

It’s a story which flows through the media of time and space.

You can’t see time nor space – but they’re there. And you get to create with them.

Facebook claims it’s a place to tell your story.

No, Facebook is just one medium where things that aren’t really you radiate onto glowing screens.

Others may choose to believe Facebook’s claim as they let the radiation dart through they’re glimmered eyes, but you don’t have to believe any of it.

You may get knocked down, beaten and lost in life.

You, however, are the main author. You’ve been given just enough time and space to create your story.

Please don’t forget this.

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Lessons Learned from Grief

It hurts more the longer you postpone it.
That impulse to go ape-shit for a few minutes? Go with it.
Don’t expect lights to turn on suddenly.
Sit with the dark. Befriend it.
Hemingway was right.
Fall back in love with nature.
Grace under pressure is your right. So is grief.

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The Internet Is Where Things Go To Die

The Internet is where things go to die.

Master resurrection.

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A Story in the Form of a Question

When you step back and look at all the stuff involved in online business – the analytics, the content antics, the testing, the back-and-forth, trying to get a pulse on attribution management, finding that balance between quality creation and quantity measurement, knowing when to put out or fold – it all looks utterly deranged and weird and schizoid.

When you pan ever farther back, you have to ask yourself: what’s is all for? What’s it about really?

And if it’s about money, what happens after that multi-million dollar flip? What do you end up doing? Where do you go?…

…Why back to the Web, launching a new product or start up or tweeting that new cats-on-acid blog.

Is the Web, in its essence, the Mother of all Trolls, conveying us – little hamsters – on an electric sea with no land at any edge?

@PhilBaumann

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Gimme News I Don’t Wanna Hear

Are personalized news services a good thing for democracy?

Yes, they’re convenient – and definitely offer advantages. But if we overdo them, what do we lose? What – or whom – do we give up.

If all we pay attention to are the things that matter to us, who cares for anybody else? For the world is you plus not you.

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