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Processing at the speed of a human

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There was a time when I could read at the speed of light, browse 3 websites, and produce a cogently written report or email.  I am technically supposed to be getting faster with the increasingly amazing technology services and products that I am privy to.

I am not getting faster.  I am slower.

I think that this is a sign of age and *wisdom* which is hilarious.  I used to think intelligence was a function of processing more, better, faster.  I realize that judgment may not scale evenly to our ability to consume, repackage, and share. 

I am slower, but I find comfort in the adage "slow and steady wins the race."  I append it to "focused and deliberate creates better outcomes."

Now I just need to make sure that my judgment isn't inherently flawed. 

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Does publishing your life online diminish your real-life relationships?

It is a sobering thing when you never get calls from your parents anymore.

Is it a sign of age?  Crumbling relationships?  Is our society just absurdly busy now such that our pre-retirement parents don't care to talk to their adult children?  Is it apathy, even?

After much reflection, questioning of siblings, and comparing notes with my friends, I have found one contributing factor to the increasing dearth of calls from Mom.  

It's Tumblr.

Siblings are viewing our mobile blog on Tumblr.  The narrative it provides sates their curiosity.  Tumblr shows them all the best from our lives.  Some of our worst moments.  

In sum, it's entertaining.  

It has a huge cute factor, as the photo below evinces, of Elsa sporting her ladybug antennae pre-Halloween.

Apparently, it's also a lot more enjoyable and efficient than calling me.  Or even reading my meandering blog.  

Now that my parents get the condensed version of my life, they feel more connected.  Hence, they reach out to me less.  Which leaves me strangely feeling more disconnected to them.  

Is this the dynamic that we are to expect from our ever-increasing "connectedness?"  Are the people who publish, share, and post with the aim of bringing more people into their worlds actually seeing their real relationships diminish?  It's sobering to think that my parents are blithely viewing my mobile blog, content with these photobytes.  However, it leaves me, and alas, my little lovebugs wondering after, and wanting, the impromptu phone calls.

Multimedia addicts...get married and have kids who are more of the same.

Oct 2, 2008

Balance is NOT bunk....even for working moms....

If the economy is bad, there's always gigs on Craigslist.

I would have been offended, were it not so funny....and so I share, at the risk of offending others:

_{NEED SARAH PALIN LOOKALIKE ASAP FOR ADULT FILM (LA)}

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Reply to: gigs-836109998@craigslist.org ^[?]
Date: 2008-09-10, 8:20PM PDT

Looking for a Sarah Palin lookalike for an adult film to be shot in next 10 days. 

Major adult studio. 

Please send pix, stats etc. ASAP 

Pay: $2000-3000 

No anal required

• Location: LA
• it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
• Compensation: $2000-3000

PostingID: 836109998

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/adg/836109998.html