An Australian Dust Storm

For a very long time I was a massive advocate of social media , how it can connect people, allow anyone to publish to the Web, and share those moments that matter with the people they care about. They were simpler times. There are three facets of social media that I have I grown more and more wary of as they have each grown in power and influence. btw: if you wanna know what social media I use the answer is none. Ish. I don't have anything to do with Facebook and its many apps, I have locked down my Twitter account just to follow a handful of 'silly' accounts that if I can find RSS feeds I will. I'm on LinkedIn but don't have the app and tbh I forget it's around. The one "social media" site I use a lot is YouTube, but it's like TV for me and I Chromecast so never see or interact with comments and the like. So, why the disenchantment and moving on? 1: Social Media is all about money Twitter, Facebook, and all those that claim to 'connect people&

What do you do with your education now that you have it – and now that it is beginning to become obsolete even as you sit here? - Choose One of Five | Andrew Scott | Figures of Speech If you want you can also read the whole transcript , this for me is the choice I made and I didn't even know it, I can't imagine any other way of being. And then, finally, there's choice five. It's hard to state this one. About as close as I can come to it is this: Hang loose, but stay vibrantly alive. This one's strenuous. This one's demanding. Choice five would demand of you that you consider today's graduation no more than a pause to catch your breath before continuing the life-long job of education. It would demand of you that you be your own unique best self. And there is no higher demand that that. Choice five entails wide-ranging reading and deep-probing thought. It calls for a contradictory thing - a mind that is constantly open to new facts that dictate change bu

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