Kris's collection of random items found while RSSing, Google Reading or FFFFounding, it may not always be attributed, but i use it as a scrapbook of stuff that excites me.

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Posts tagged with angst
“ One of the more embarrassing and self-indulgent challenges of our time is the task of relearning how to concentrate. The past decade has seen an unparalleled assault on our capacity to fix our minds steadily on anything. To sit still and think, without succumbing to an anxious reach for a machine, has become almost impossible.
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On Distraction by Alain de Botton

I am happily self indulgent.

I have a crush on Jonathan Harris

Ever since his observation on the emptiness of flash experimentation vs idea generation (and Harris’ response) at Flash on the Beach, I generate my own internal angst by benchmarking both ideas and the work against my own past experiments and Harris’ benchmarks. I still haven’t succeeded, and not sure i will, but i shall die trying.

Now his essay snippets from World Building in a Crazy World bring a lot of perspective to the constant reblogging, retweeting vacuous environment which we co-exist with.

Most online experiences are made, like fast food, to be cheap, easy, and addictive: appealing to our hunger for connection but rarely serving up nourishment. Shrink-wrapped junk food experiences are handed to us for free by social media companies, and we swallow them up eagerly, like kids given buckets of candy with ads on all the wrappers.
These experiences are sensitive neither to individual humans nor to the human collective, but only to page views and growth (in a corporate, not personal sense).
Our Digital Crisis - Jonathan Harris

There are a lot of salient points contained within all of the mini essays and I find parallels with Matt Jones ideas behind the Get Excited and Make Things