Chaos Tamer
Today’s thought:
Freedom: The least amount of external influence on my life.
Looking over my life so far, it’s clear to me that I value freedom highly. I’ve walked away from jobs that looked like they’d box me in.
I love the independence I currently have. Even “lots more” money would be a tough choice, and probably not worth it. There’s little I’d trade it for.
Creativity is, perhaps, the most wonderful gift one could have. Nothing’s more unique, more rare than the ability to see things as they could be.
I’m puzzled. Why is Sony deferring to the PDRK? There’s nothing dramatically new about this latest round of adolescent posturing. Of course, the North Koreans haven’t taken responsibility. But, why?
Is it the threats of violence, which seem rather unexecutable at this point. Perhaps it’s simple economics, with a significant lack of theatres willing to show it? Perhaps the other production companies lobbied hard enough, worried about getting caught in the crossfire, so to speak.
Perhaps it’s the hacking. Looks like Sony had been hit hard. But, is it really so bad that they’ll dump the whole $44 million movie production investment? It’s looking that way. Of course, most of the coverage I’ve read has been focused on the hacking. When a global company is reduced to handwritten paper memos, the threat must be considered severe.
I’m disappointed that these self-styled Guardians of Peace won this round. Should give us all pause, though. This is a disturbing precedent that I don’t want repeated.
Updated: just read this piece over at Slate, “The Sony Hackers Are Terrorists“. Very powerful thoughts on what these attacks might mean going forward. I’ve thing’s certain: cyber-security it’s definitely the career of the future.
Celebrity had been, and it’s really now, about many loving the beloved from afar. The new online economy, this new world, is about making the connection more intimate, more personal. Even with large audiences, the connections are one to one, or feel so.
Lately, I’ve been considering all the changes Facebook has blasted out over the years. Particularly, I’ve been wondering about the Facebook pages I manage. In particular, the many changes to the way business pages interact with the general user concern me. I first noticed this with my personal page feed. Business page content gets filtered out, rarely appearing in feeds, even MY pages in MY feed. I’m also noticing a drop in engagement: comments, questions, dialog, et al. This video takes that concern and provides some flesh to its bones.
Now I wonder about Facebook’s value to small businesses in any capacity. If content and connection gets buried, lost, or goes out to irrelevant audiences, there is no value. Well, little. Ok, well, lesser. The value of Facebook is still immense. Facebook is still a key piece to a social media strategy. It’s THE place, with diverse demographics and a truly global reach. Or, as I like to say, it’s the place with the eye-balls. So, there’s still value in the gorilla that is Facebook, but it’s role and impact have just changed.
Expect that, within this perpetually changing landscape, it’s place and value will change yet again. And again…
Violence doesn’t heal.
Tis a short term thing,
Self-inflicted grief
Building upon agony.
Simmering wreckage,
Quite close to home.
New destruction layered
Upon the old.
Gargantuan pachyderm
Calmly sits,
Ignored.
So begins doom
Tendons within the neck
Pulled, slowly, growing
Into ferocity, mercy unknown.
Powerless, collapsing within.
Seeking, simply, to continue
To exist upon the other side.
Survival, sometimes, a worthy
Goal.
A simple thought: physical attraction may be felt towards those disliked, or even despised. Love is richer, deeper. Love seeks the happiness of its focus. Self sacrifice for the beloved: easy, actually pleasing, especially when successful. Generosity’s birthplace is there.
No more glorious sound exists than the laughter of those we love.