rinse spin

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument are you going to provide to show the importance of logic?

The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its employees to innovate. The Google I left was an advertising company with a single corporate-mandated focus.

Why I left Google by James Whittaker

Exactly why I use DuckDuckGo as my search engine, use OSM for mapping, pay for NewsBlur, removed all my google history, and signed out of all Google properties. I only use Gmail and Youtube, and reluctantly at that.

It’s amazing how creative the cuts and sharp the sacrifices become when you’re backed into a corner. It’s when you have to choose that you make the best choices.

You can always do less - (37signals)

Reminds me of a quote from Woz I heard a while ago about how he was so lucky to grow up with so little and with so many limitations, mostly in terms of money. It made him make do with what he had.

I keep looking for meaning, but all I’ve found so far is that in order to be at peace with the present, we must be at peace with the past, because the present is a product of the past. Accept. Accept. Accept.

We all know that the game is about looking busy, and keeping the money circulating, even within the organization. Meetings are called with no real business at hand, because “they’ll start to think we don’t do anything down here if we don’t have another meeting”.

Technology lets us do things faster and more efficiently; why would we use that newfound free time to do more and more of the same old thing? I’m not just talking about smarter consumption of content like Johnson is– I’m also saying, fuck consumption.

I try to remember all the products I’ve talked about that I won’t even bother to cover—and that nobody’s going to buy.

Please explain evil. Show your work.