Pathless Land: Archive

June 2013

21 posts

“I love my devices and services, and I love being connected to the global hive mind. I am neither a Luddite nor a hermit, but I am more aware of the price we pay: lack of depth, reduced accuracy, lower quality, impatience, selfishness, and mental exhaustion, to name but a few. In choosing to digitally enhance, hyperconnect, and constantly share our lives, we risk not living them…” —

Baratunde Thurston

From his piece #Unplug: Baratunde Thurston left the internet for 25 days, and you should too.

Here’s more about #unplugging.

(via fastcompany)

Jun 19, 2013172 notes

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#simple is good

“Knock it off. Knock off counting how much money you have and start thinking about what you’re doing with it. What you’re doing with your money and time is a lot more important than how much money and time you have.” —Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton in four reasons we’re still obsessed with money and one loud call to quit it. (via fastcompany)

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“Jump from the cliff. Build your wings on the way down.” —Ray Bradbury (via kateoplis)

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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” —Robert A. Heinlein, quote from Bobby McKenna’s talk at Valio Con 2013 (via jonathanmoore)

Jun 9, 201380 notes

U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program - The Washington Post → washingtonpost.com

The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.

The highly classified program, code-named PRISM, has not been disclosed publicly before. Its establishment in 2007 and six years of exponential growth took place beneath the surface of a roiling debate over the boundaries of surveillance and privacy. Even late last year, when critics of the foreign intelligence statute argued for changes, the only members of Congress who know about PRISM were bound by oaths of office to hold their tongues.

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#shocking but not shocking

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Jun 2, 2013

#Trampled by fire

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