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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Balance: Overrated or over-strived-for?
A friend emailed me with some good questions about my post on balancing different roles. He wrote: “I am interested in the idea of balance being overrated. Can you give me an example of it? Do you think some imbalance can be more than temporary?” That’s a great question–balance is such a popular idea, yet [...]
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Brief foray back onto Facebook: Lessons learned
Finishing week 3 of my Facebook-free-living experiment, I decided to get back on very briefly to check in and make sure I had information about a friend’s event I had copied down as part of my exit from FB. How has this decision to disconnect from an online social network impacted my overall connection to [...]
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Why I hit pause on Facebook: Passivity, performance, and pressure
Given my love of writing what aspire to be witty and perceptive posts, I found myself at a loss for what to do with interesting experiences this first week without Facebook. I suddenly was disconnected from the cycle of producing content for fast consumption by my FB friends, and from the pressures to put on an [...]
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Day 7 of Facebook withdrawal
Thanks to my careful, if perhaps extreme, preparations, it’s been surprisingly easy to restructure my life to temporarily omit Facebook. That’s not to say I don’t miss it. Facebook is very good at what it does and delivers on its promise of connecting people. I love it despite its commercially-motivated manipulations and how it has given birth to [...]
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How to disentangle your life from Facebook
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m going cold-turkey on Facebook for the next few days, as an experiment in ending information addiction, and to free up the time to write more here even while having an exceptionally busy week. To get off Facebook, I did the following: 1. Changed my profile picture to [...]
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Quitting Facebook for a few days and starting a new series here
Last night I decided to try disconnecting from Facebook and reshaping my information consumption and production in other ways for a few days. While this will have some of the same benefits as a typical Internet fast, my goal this time is not luddite in nature. I am going to refocus my time online in [...]
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The crazy thing I saw in the “goal-free zone”