I Own Me

If you’re running the Micro.blog app on your iPhone or Mac, it really does look like a slimmed-down Twitter. This is by design. But don’t let that deceive you.

If the web is a river, Micro.blog is water, where Twitter and Facebook are dams.

-Brent Simmons, “Why Micro.blog is Not Another App.net”, Inessential

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Read, Think, Share, Repeat

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Linked things

• Tech and Liberty — Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Lowest Wage Challenge
• Six Reasons Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy - TidBITS
• “This School is Doing a Lot Different.” Lt. Gov. Barnes Visits Badger Rock | Madison365
• If you really want to remember a moment, try not to take a photo |
• Why Deeply Diving Into Content Could Be the Key to Reading Comprehension | MindShift | KQED News
• The Internet and the Third Estate — Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Google and Ambient Computing — Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Wisconsin One of Several US States Marking Their First Indigenous Peoples’ Day | Madison365
• Relocated Items in macOS Catalina Explained - MacRumors
• Four wheels. Cramped quarters. But no rent. Why people are living in RVs on Palo Alto’s El Camino Real.
• Privacy Fundamentalism — Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• The Physiology of Fasting - Zero

Linked things with Quotes

• Living Wages In The Fashion Industry - Nisolo
• We Can’t Even Comprehend the Massive Data Haul We’ll Soon Get From Sensors
• Creating the Habit of Not Being Busy : zen habits
• How many outs? Baseball playoff graphics compared - Six Colors
• What’s Lost When Parents Don’t Talk About Social Identity With Their Kids? | MindShift | KQED News
• Ellie Pell Wins Green Lakes Endurance Run 50K - Female Ultrarunners
• Apple Car(d) | Asymco
• Michael’s Frozen Custard Owner to Close One Location After Husband Denied US Visa | Madison365
• What If Life Did Not Originate on Earth? | The New Yorker
• Why Parents Hate Summer Break - In These Times
• I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America. | HuffPost
• Age 5 Is Both Wonderful And Terrible
• What Happened to Jonathan Taylor Thomas? - VICE
• Opinion | It’s Time for ‘They’ - The New York Times
• Paul Ford’s Interaction: Elegy for the Text Box - Print Magazine
• Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
• The New Passport-Poor | by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
• Where even Walmart won’t go: how Dollar General took over rural America | Business | The Guardian
• How the Disposable Straw Explains Modern Capitalism - The Atlantic
• Hollywood made a white version and a black version of the same movie | The Outline
• The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America - The Atlantic
• A Grammatically Correct Sentence
• Steve Jobs Quote
• Discussing the Nexus 7
• Post-WWDC Expectations
• Apple, by definition

Linked things with Comments

• Health Tracking Can Be Unhealthy
• I’m Reading: A Silent Week’s Roundup
• I’m Reading Weekend in Review
• I’m Reading Apple Event Roundups
• I’m Reading “​Oura Ring Review”
• I’m Reading “A Real Smart Watch” and “Apple Watch”
• I’m Reading “Daring Fireball: The iPhone XR”
• I’m Reading “Stages of Sleep: The Definitive Guide for the Curious | Oura Ring”
• I’m Reading “A Few Thoughts on the iPhone XS Max”
• I’m Reading “Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us — Henry Cowles | Aeon Ideas”
• I’m Reading “From Clockworks to Computers on Our Wrists — Medium”
• I’m Reading “Jony Ive on the Apple Watch and Big Tech’s responsibilities - Financial Times”
• I’m Reading About the Apple Watch

Collected things

• Uncommon Path, Fall 2019
• The Shot I Still Think About
• School’s Out
• Runner Lorena Ramírez Is Going The Distance
• Re-Riding History
• City Parks 2.0
• Chesapeake Bay’s Vanishing Island

Book things

• The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo

Forgotten things

Important things

Friction

There is no better reason to not do something
There is no better reason to try
There is no better reason to fight
Against tyranny and strife

Removal is often the goal
Removal is often the challenge
Removal is often not enough
To completely fix what hangs in the balance

But it can bring about great change
But it can bring light
But it can bring great joys
In the darkness of the night

And so I live with friction
And so I live with what is hard
And so I live with what I love
But I stay upon my guard

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