Garrick van Buren – Page 39 – About time. And product. And being more deliberate.

“Keep the Browser Closed”

Unchecked

“…the new Sabbath Manifesto app, for the iPhone, Android, Blackberry and other smartphones, announces to your social networks and online community through Facebook and Twitter that you are unplugging and will not be available online. Users can also sign up for text alerts that will remind them on Friday to unplug.
” – Tanya Schevitz

How Reasonable

“In retrospect, it seems pretty clear that my Objectivist phase had more to do with the subjective agonies of post-adolescence (insecurity, narcissism) than it did with pure reason.” – Sam Anderson, NY Times Magazine

Slumming it

“Slum tourism is a type of tourism that involves visiting impoverished areas, which has become increasingly prominent in several developing countries like India, Brazil, Kenya, and Indonesia The concept began in poor sections of London and by 1884 had started in Manhattan.”

“I’m not interested in selling pieces of plastic.”

“Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator. People who look at music as commerce don’t understand that.” – Jeff Tweedy

Challenge Accepted

“We challenge people to sit in the chamber in the dark – one reporter stayed in there for 45 minutes.” – Steven Orfield

And if it doesn’t matter…

“Competition on price also implies that the content of your ebook doesn’t matter…I’d much rather have one such customer who I found by charging $39 than 13 less enthusiastic customers who feel my product is as disposable as a cup of over-roasted coffee. That one customer will do much more to help build my new business.” – Jason Cohen

Funproductive

“Reading productivity posts in itself is a highly unproductive exercise. Our time probably would have been better spent by looking at cats on Reddit instead.” – Jason Kim

SocialSwarm.net

“We want to put the users of social network services back in control of their data.
We want You to be able to choose which people see your data.
We want to be independent from centralized infrastructures.
We want a social swarm.”

How Will We Know When the Future Has Arrived?

When TacoCopter is a reality.