One of the things I’m still struggling with related to using Micro.blog is that I can’t post as fast. This has been a barrier to me contributing more, but maybe that’s a good thing?

It is so easy to pile on to the news of the day and provide your own knee-jerk response. I do it in my head and that’s where it stays. This shift, especially now that I’m so much more focused on writing and contirbuting positively to the Micro.blog community, has had a positive impact in my life. Feels good.

I still cannot for the life of me figure out why people share their Venmo transactions publicly.

Let’s remember one of the cardinal rules of social media. Out of 100 people, 1% will create the content, 10% will curate the content, and the other 90% will simply consume it. That plays out on this blog, that plays out in Twitter, and that plays out in most of the services we are invested in.

The Innovation of Loneliness (by Shimi Cohen)

The primary business model of the Internet is built on mass surveillance, and our government’s intelligence-gathering agencies have become addicted to that data. Understanding how we got here is critical to understanding how we undo the damage.