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Fack’s Facebook Facts 1
Posted in: The Internet & MediaBusiness Insider: What It’s Really Like to Work At Facebook Facebook employs 23,165 people, worldwide* I thought as my countdown to dumping Facebook, I’d share some interesting facts. The two people interviewed in the attached article paint it as a great place to work and it was recently voted as such. As someone who has…
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Au Revoir, Facebook.
Posted in: The Internet & MediaI’ve deactivated it for time periods before, but going full monty this time. Over the past few months I’ve pretty much jumped off all the social medias, including the Plus here, but have decided to gradually come back to some, in a more curated fashion. Found overall that spending less time in front of screens…
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Capitalist-Consumerist Ethics
Posted in: Philosophy & ThoughtAs someone who is by no means innocent with regard to the following tendencies, yet has been working to be more self-reflective and step out of the cycle, this passage from a book I am reading struck me last night and though long and slightly out of context, I thought merited transcribing. It’s relevance to…
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Jacked
Another post I’d bookmarked quite some time ago to read and only recently got around to. Lots of information here on how apps and UI are effecting our day-to-day practices. How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds Tons of good take-aways – one for me is installing the Moment app to see how much time I spend…
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Morning Routine
Posted in: NarrativeI finally got around today to reading this article I’d bookmarked months ago: https://www.zerotoskill.com/life-changing-morning-routine/ I set out over a year ago (2 years) to try and establish a ‘better’ morning routine and I’ve incorporated many of the suggestions in this article, and have experienced many of the effects and positives discussed therein. There’s a few…
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It’s Lab Weather Out
Posted in: NarrativeI have a special affinity for Labrador Retrievers. My grandfather had Labs as far back as I can remember. He was a duck hunter and used them to that end (with various levels of frustration and effectiveness I’m sure he’d say). He could be hard on his dogs, but I also have memories of softer,…