“…many people find the biggest surprise in leaving Facebook is how little leaving affected them. Like them, I found leaving a non-issue.” – Joshua Spodek
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“people == distraction”
“…sometimes you need few days without anyone else to get things done before deadlines. Working remotely off of 12”-13” laptop can give you a boost that you don’t expect…” – Peter Legierski
Paying for Freedom
“I would pay for a service that never sells a single piece of my life. For a service that cares about my emotions and not ad impressions. For a service that is committed to putting me first and not the advertiser. For a service that emphasizes and never blurs the sanctity of my privacy. For …
Shrug.
“Why bother working all day on a piece if something you throw together in 20 minutes will get the same attention from the world?” – Andrew Phelps What would you tell Atlas to do?
Advertising Eats Batteries
“Up to 75 per cent of the energy used by free versions of Android apps is spent serving up ads or tracking and uploading user data” – Jacob Aron, NewSeientist
One of My All-Time Favorite Tech Legends
“Retreating to his garage, he cut a block of wood to fit his shirt pocket. Then he carried it around for months, pretending it was a computer. Was he free for lunch on Wednesday? Hawkins would haul out the block and tap on it as if he were checking his schedule. If he needed a …
Dead Tree
“Print will survive. Books will survive even longer. It’s print as a marker of prestige that’s dying.” – Tim Carmody
Anti-Free
“…avoid mom-and-pop projects that don’t take your money! You might call this the anti-free-software movement.” – Maciej, Pinboard.in
Important!
“The problem isn’t the 100 messages but the 100 new responsibilities represented by the email messages.” – John D. Cook
Where Work Happens
If I’m not in the terminal then I’m not doing real work…I work in a full-screen terminal and don’t like to leave it. The world outside my terminal is filled with distractions, bright colours, and menus. My textual environment is where my real work happens. – Jesse Storimer