“We get bullshit turf battles like Tumblr not being able to find your Twitter friends or Facebook not letting Instagram photos show up on Twitter because of giant companies pursuing their agendas instead of collaborating in a way that would serve users. And we get a generation of entrepreneurs encouraged to make more narrow-minded, web-hostile products like these because it continues to make a small number of wealthy people even more wealthy, instead of letting lots of people build innovative new opportunities for themselves on top of the web itself.”—Anil Dash • Discussing the freedom we had with certain features of the Web—features that are now gone due to eventual changes. The title? “The Web We Lost.” Preach it, brother. (ht seldo)
Blessed be the third party ap makers.
I hear the formulaic sentence “Which is more important, me or ___?” a lot, but if you’re truly important, you shouldn’t be treating it like balancing scales. The intent shouldn’t be to compare a precious individual and the weight of some other thing, but to choose to put a stop to whatever pain you’re bringing that person. I want you to know you’re not some object that should be thrown onto a scale.
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I thought upon it deeply, but it seems my “ability to throw things away” is rather high, perhaps abnormally so. Today, I threw away some clothes, a towel, and some tableware.
I want to throw away the futon taking up space in my closet. And I want to toss out my bed, too, but there’s tons of CDs and books stowed underneath, so I don’t think that’ll work out. I also wanted to throw my PS3 out a window, but thankfully I convinced myself otherwise.
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