Author Archives: Theryn

Captured

In a feature that Facebook thinks is great — and will thrill law enforcement and divorce lawyers — every conversation will be captured for posterity, unless users delete specific messages or entire conversations. Do you assume that the people with whom you communicate are saving every text message and IM? You’d better.

—Dan Gillmor

Rewrite

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

—Elmore Leonard

Inspire, educate, or entertain

To get paid for what you love, you must inspire, educate, or entertain—preferably at least two of the three. But one way or another, you’ll get paid for helping people, not just being awesome.

—Chris Guillebeau

Home

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.

—Rumi
(via)

High School

Facebook: it’s all about putting you back in high school.

—NefariousNew

Happiness

[T]he sum total of happiness in your life can be measured by the amount of happiness you bring to others.

—Neal Pollack

Creepy by definition

So what? These are not private sites, anybody can read them. —gloeden31

How is this #creepy? If one wants to discuss skin issues openly, one should be more than happy to have a skin-issue company actually observe the discussion. —EthanPeter

@EthanPeter: Because reading blogs is creepy by definition. —skahammer

How DARE they view information that I posted publicly for anyone to read.

THIS is an outrage! —LUV_TRUK

Comments in response to a Gawker post titled
“Unilever Is Listening to You Talk About Your Skin Problems.”

Dare

This marathon thing is going to suck on so many levels but I’m pretty sure I’m going to do it because someone told me I couldn’t and you really shouldn’t ever tell me I can’t do something. I’ve been told I’ll never publish, get a PhD, and any number of things. I’m the wrong one to dare. It never ends well for the other party. I hope no one ever tells me I can’t fly because you’ll see me throwing myself off a building, arms spread wide waiting for my body to take flight because that’s how fiercely I believe.

—Roxane Gay

Melancholy

In High Fidelity, Nick Hornby’s pop music-obsessed narrator Rob Fleming asks, following his most recent in a spate of romantic failures, while slumped in his apartment feeling desperately sorry for himself: “What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?”

—Ujala Sehgal