White Collar Prisoners

Here I record personal experiences, lessons learned, thoughts, and every other random thing that strikes me on my road to becoming an entrepreneur, finding my calling in life, and bidding adieu to Corporate America. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-17231268-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

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via whereinthehellisnowherenow

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Interesting

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[theclearlydope]

We are mere minutes away from Pizza Hut stuffing their crust with cocaine and Twinkie filling.

[findingacalling]

I had this in Costa Rica. Fucking gross.

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Chi-Noceros by Octophant

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A Graphical Look at Digital Piracy:

Read the companion piece at Threatpost.

Images from the American Assembly’s Copy Culture Survey

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Homework

Happy Holidays, all! Our present to you, a list of 439 organizations supporting SOPA. What you do with this information is entirely up to you. For context, there have been suggested boycotts and contact campaigns you may find interesting.   

Holiday hugs and hand-pounds.

[findingacalling]

Boycott these companies.

[transformingeducation-blog-blog]

On The American Interest’s website, Walter Russell Mead writes this week:

In the humanities and most of the social “sciences”, the Ph.D and peer review machine as it now exists is a vastly expensive mediocrity factory. It makes education both more expensive and less effective than it needs...

[findingacalling]

Mediocrity factories. Sounds about right.

[meredithbklyn]

This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find … themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live adults. Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or high school even, with all their might. They’ve stayed in jobs they hate, because they’re too scared to get another one. They’ve stayed with men or women who are good but not great, because they don’t want to be lonely. … they mean to develop intimate friendships, they mean to stop drinking like life is one big frat party. But they don’t do those things, so they live in an extended adolescence, no closer to adulthood than when they graduated. Don’t be like that. Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal. Ask yourself some good questions like: “Am I proud of the life I’m living? What have I tried this month? … Do the people I’m spending time with give me life, or make me feel small? Is there any brokenness in my life that’s keeping me from moving forward?” Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love, and with people who believe … life is a grand adventure. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep traveling honestly along life’s path.

Relevant magazine (via charliebravo)

A great end of year quote.

(via getglucky)

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It’s honestly hard to believe that he is a real person sometimes

[yancey]

Right now I, along with many of my peers in the tech community, am a single-issue voter: the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act. There is no legislative action more important to the future of the web and our society than its defeat.

SOPA will cut off at the knees the innovations in...

[redheadedtwin]

What a hiatus. I feel like I’ve been going non-stop and haven’t had a moment to slow down until now. Updates? Well, I packed my bags and everything I own (save my paintings, those will be shipped later), and moved my little redheaded self to Chicago. It’s been home for the past 3 months now.

Step...

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[findingacalling]

understatementblog:

The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones...

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gigfunder:

Everyone always talks about how much less money the music industry makes now. Hit albums are on a dramatic decline. The challenge is apparently to try to get the number of people buying albums back to historical levels.

Transactional listeners are the ones that made albums hits.

This...