I have to admit I'm enjoying posting on LinkedIn. I have a reminder in my TODO app to post every day and I'm trying t...
I have to admit I'm enjoying posting on LinkedIn. I have a reminder in my TODO app to post every day and I'm trying to stick to it. J. Gabriel Boylan told me I would need to do it in order to Thought Lead for Aboard in these troubling times, and while I initially began doing so passive-aggressively I'm getting a kick out of exploring the last social network standing—by which I mean the last one that's focused on individual social networking. The other ones let you follow and be followed, but they all now seem to be oriented around various forms of collective and/or state-level propaganda diffusion. At least for me, the natural, confusing narcissism of the individual striver (which includes me) on here turns out to be more interesting and dynamic than collective panic and outrage of everyone over there."
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"And yep there is a preponderance of nonsense content about “crushing it,“ but it's incredibly easy to ignore because those people write in extremely short paragraphs that you can see from orbit. And yep it looks like everyone is spackling on a grin and pretending everything is okay. But in truth, there's more hard climate news and, actually, more activist, oppositional information than on a lot of other networks—it's just often delivered with less urgency, as part of the course of business, so you have to pay a little more attention."
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"IDK. I love thrift stores. My wife and I are raising a thrift store family. I grew up in a college town and some of my fondest memories are of rooting through the the piles of stuff students left behind when they went off for summer. I cannot tell you the sheer volume of TVs, stereo equipment, books, and clothes state college students leave behind. It's not just finding cheap stuff, it's figuring out why it's there in the first place, discovering who left it there, and comparing their reality to yours.