haha.. i had a similar reaction on a linkedin post some months back... I'd said something like one of my interview questions is for the candidate to show me their email inbox and if it was messy i immediately thanked them for their time and ended it. As a person needs to be organized to work with me.
And it lit the Linkedin airwaves on fire... with folks calling me evil etc i loved it however hahahaa
I am so sorry you took that one for the team, so that we can make our own mistakes, not your mistakes. And I love the premise of this essay (beautifully punctuated with visuals!)
Normally I would agree with you. Paper trumps audio. But have you ever driven solo from Toronto to Boston? 10 hours of Matthew McConaughey riding shotgun, purring his words as company. The miles fly by. Some books are more personal via audio.
I couldn't agree more. I get the same reaction when I post a painting I'm doing asking for feedback and all I get is it';s wonderful etc. This is not what I'm looking for and such responses
are only superficial. People just don't understand or think thru what I'm after -- I'm not interested in selling only trying to improve. Obviously , this is not the right forum for me.
I 100% agree on the audio books. Glad there's someone out there who thinks the same lol. I find them distracting. I end up doing things while they keep going. Not my thing. But I know for many they're the holy grail of reading.
Your last statement "the internet you is not you", though, got me thinking. I mean, there's certainly a number of people who deliberately try to build a different identity on social media, for whatever reason. But I do know, for example, that I am me on there. And many others are themselves (including you, I bet). My point is that we shouldn't get demoralized by over-criticism or elevated by over-praise because these comments are largely constructed to be artificial (they're not based on enough elements to be truthful and honest, as you say). So my view is that it's them that they're not them, not you that are not you on the internet. Makes sense? Anyways, my unsolicited two cents. Great piece, as always, Arman. :)
Agree on audiobooks. I was given one for a birthday, years ago, a hag of a sort of romantic story and not in English or any other European language which I always prefer. I politely told the friend it wasn’t something I’d do. She went into a rant about how wonderful audiobooks are. Urrgh.
I prefer paper, books I sit down with and lose track of time while reading though it can be tricky with 3 cats 🙄.
And, well, Xitter is Xitter, it can be a bottomless pit of egotistical ranting personae, and then there are small groups of kind, caring people.
Uninhibited internet spicyness is rather silly indeed
haha.. i had a similar reaction on a linkedin post some months back... I'd said something like one of my interview questions is for the candidate to show me their email inbox and if it was messy i immediately thanked them for their time and ended it. As a person needs to be organized to work with me.
And it lit the Linkedin airwaves on fire... with folks calling me evil etc i loved it however hahahaa
I am so sorry you took that one for the team, so that we can make our own mistakes, not your mistakes. And I love the premise of this essay (beautifully punctuated with visuals!)
Normally I would agree with you. Paper trumps audio. But have you ever driven solo from Toronto to Boston? 10 hours of Matthew McConaughey riding shotgun, purring his words as company. The miles fly by. Some books are more personal via audio.
I couldn't agree more. I get the same reaction when I post a painting I'm doing asking for feedback and all I get is it';s wonderful etc. This is not what I'm looking for and such responses
are only superficial. People just don't understand or think thru what I'm after -- I'm not interested in selling only trying to improve. Obviously , this is not the right forum for me.
I 100% agree on the audio books. Glad there's someone out there who thinks the same lol. I find them distracting. I end up doing things while they keep going. Not my thing. But I know for many they're the holy grail of reading.
Your last statement "the internet you is not you", though, got me thinking. I mean, there's certainly a number of people who deliberately try to build a different identity on social media, for whatever reason. But I do know, for example, that I am me on there. And many others are themselves (including you, I bet). My point is that we shouldn't get demoralized by over-criticism or elevated by over-praise because these comments are largely constructed to be artificial (they're not based on enough elements to be truthful and honest, as you say). So my view is that it's them that they're not them, not you that are not you on the internet. Makes sense? Anyways, my unsolicited two cents. Great piece, as always, Arman. :)
They thought they would burn you at the stake? Fools!
Stay spicy.
gotta love the internet
Great post, but now . . . the question is begged, "Who are you really?"
Agree on audiobooks. I was given one for a birthday, years ago, a hag of a sort of romantic story and not in English or any other European language which I always prefer. I politely told the friend it wasn’t something I’d do. She went into a rant about how wonderful audiobooks are. Urrgh.
I prefer paper, books I sit down with and lose track of time while reading though it can be tricky with 3 cats 🙄.
And, well, Xitter is Xitter, it can be a bottomless pit of egotistical ranting personae, and then there are small groups of kind, caring people.