{"id":1573,"date":"2015-04-27T18:23:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T22:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=634"},"modified":"2015-04-27T18:23:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T22:23:58","slug":"jeneral-finds-of-the-week-2015-04-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=1573","title":{"rendered":"Jeneral finds of the week: 2015-04-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are this week\u2019s interesting things I&#8217;ve stumbled across: 2015-04-28<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/08\/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin\/376041\/\">\u201cThe Internet\u2019s Original Sin\u201d<\/a> <\/em>is not pornography, as you might originally conclude. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/08\/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin\/376041\/\">this article<\/a> in The Atlantic, one of the early developers of the web outlines how the good intentions of the heady days early days of the internet evolved into our current state of &#8220;advertising-supported, \u2018free-as-in-beer\u2019 constellation of social networks, services and content that represents so much of present day web industry&#8230; Surveillance as the default, if not sole, internet business model.\u201d This is what happens when you\u00a0refuse to pay money for things, you pay with a loss of your privacy and control of your data. The l<a href=\"http:\/\/idlewords.com\/bt14.htm\">inked lecture by Maciej Ceglowski<\/a> in 2014 is also an enlightening, if longer, read. Both should have you at least pondering whether you want to whole-heartedly and blindly continue to support this business model on the web. And whether we want our children to not know a choice.<\/li>\n<li>There is a name for this affliction we have with our smart phones and social media, and it\u2019s been around since 1998- Continuous Partial Attention. This interview with the person who coined the phrase, Linda Stone, had some points that really made me sit up and notice, such as &#8220;Kids learn empathy in part through eye contact and gaze. If kids are learning empathy through eye contact, and our eye contact is with devices, they will miss out on empathy.&#8221; http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2013\/06\/the-art-of-paying-attention\/309312\/<\/li>\n<li>Following that call for mindfulness and attentiveness for the activity at hand is this:<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2013\/06\/07\/annie-dillard-the-writing-life-1\/\">How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Presence Over Productivity<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Then when I read\u00a0this article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@chrismessina\/the-full-stack-employee-ed0db089f0a1\">The Full-Stack Employee<\/a>, the juxtaposition of these ideas on how to be hyper-productive in today\u2019s workforce against the previous ones of presence over productivity was amusing, for sure. But it\u2019s still relevant for me to think about as I\u2019ve returned to the workforce, and trying to figure out how to best stay valuable so I can demand concessions to be made on flexibility in my schedule.<\/li>\n<li>Remember back in 2006 when the International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto was no longer classified as a planet? This video gives a good explainer why in less than 5 minutes.\u00a0[su_youtube url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z_2gbGXzFbs&#8221; width=&#8221;480&#8243; height=&#8221;300&#8243;]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>~Jen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are this week\u2019s interesting things I&#8217;ve stumbled across: 2015-04-28 \u201cThe Internet\u2019s Original Sin\u201d is not pornography, as you might originally conclude. 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