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A new decade is a good time to step back and look beyond the immediate. As the world enter the 2010s, and I enter my 30s, that’s precisely what I am going to do.

Looking Back at the 2000s

Looking back, the 2000s gave us the television reality show, an online encyclopedia that is created by amateurs, a social networking platform that is bigger than the US, and a web that is driven by real-time status updates. In the process, the decade fundamentally changed how we define our identities as individuals and as groups, how we view the private and the public and how we play the roles of citizens, consumers and creators.

Personally, the 2000s gave me much more than my twenty year self could have asked for on January 1, 2000. In the last ten years, I have lived in five cities, traveled to five continents and lived at least as many lives (each with its own share of highs and heartaches). Now, a decade later, I am back in the city I started from, and I am beginning yet another life.  Read More

From Gapingvoid

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I have been thinking about honesty today.

First, my daily horoscope advised me to be honest but not too honest –

You may be tired of always being the one to tell it like it is, even when you know someone else doesn’t want to hear the truth. In time your honesty will be appreciated, but you must be careful about overstating your case. Avoid self righteousness and others will be more likely to join your cause.

- and then, I read Po Bronson’s take on how we are increasingly relying on technology to be honest -

We need an excuse, it seems, more and more. We need a way to soften difficult conversations. We need some way of introducing ourselves to strangers, and we need a way to complain, and we need a way to be brutally honest. New technology (caller ID, voicemail, email, SMS, Tivo) happens to be very good at filling this need. We rely on it, more and more, to assist in a variety of difficult conversations.

Bronson also explains why we do it –  Read More