Monday: Go On Jump In. Immersion 101. – Nicholas Bate
It’s hard to imagine a better introductory post to summarize the wonders of the enigmatic Mr. Bate than this one.
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Kottke posts about a helpful meditation exercise for use in public places.
This is a form of loving kindness meditation. It helps both you and them.
James Shelley says farewell to social media. And, while there are a lot of people writing about that these days, I wanted to highlight this passage in particular:
Moving ahead, I will use email as my principal means of communicating and organizing personal endeavours, initiatives, and projects… Why? Email is peer-to-peer, distributed, non-proprietary, and adaptable. It is, as far as I can tell right now, the best ‘social platform’ presently at our disposal.
I’ve always been a fan of email and agree with this sentiment strongly.
Matthew Lang is back with thoughts on Using Your Time. As I’ve said, we all have the time. How we use it is a choice.
A Guide to Micro.blog For People Who Have A Love/Hate Relationship With Twitter
TL;DR You don’t have to choose between the platforms, but here are some of the ways that they are different. You don’t have to leave Twitter, but there is a good chance Twitter will leave you …without your favorite Twitter client, that is.
London’s prettiest and most Instagrammable bookshops
Any one of these is what I imagine heaven looks like.
We could continue to flock to Twitter and Facebook — we could keep paying those who have and will rip off democracy for a stock price — or we could turn our backs and help the open web instead. — Brent Simmons on why he uses Micro.blog
So much yep.
“It is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King , Jr.
This is important.
Michael Wade gives us The Focus Formula. This is important.
Wired says RSS readers are due for a comeback. For some of us, they never went away.