Quick--read this! "Hurry up, get more done, and die"--Mark Morford

[MorningGlow]

Your terrifying word of the day is "microtasking" and it comes by way of a relatively humble, ostensibly helpful article I read via one of those perky little DIY blogs that exist to tell you a million ways to tweak and hack your entire existence to gain maximum productivity, efficiency and improved overall time management, because, well, if that's not the true meaning of this manic American life, what is?

/snip/

"But wait!" I can hear you wail. "We're Americans! We love nothing more than to conflate 'work' with 'calling,' to confuse busyness with purpose. Stillness is suspicious! Work is all there is! Endless toil isn't just a means to divinity, it is divinity! It says so in the Bible! So it must be true."

Ain't it a shame? Don't ideas like microtasking speak directly to the toxic, Puritanical American work ethic that tells us if you're not spending pretty much every waking moment in some manner of chore, well, your value as a human is more than a little bit diminished? Is it not the idea that a given month, week, day or hour is nothing more than a giant, blank To Do list in need of a some items?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/10/19/notes101911.DTL#ixzz1bF8zw4MF

[Kind of Blue]

1. Oh my, I love love love Mark Morford!

He's always so bang on with his observations and words. Thanks, MG!

"Me, I am not sure what I want on my epitaph. Probably something about love and whisky, bliss and consciousness, sex and the yoga of wordplay. Or maybe nothing at all.

But I know what I don't want it to say: Here lies Mark Morford. He sure got a lot done."

[MorningGlow]

2. Me too

This part freaked me out:

"In any 48-hour period in 2010," says a stunning bit I just read in the Atlantic by way of entrepreneur Yuri Milner, "more data was created than had been created by all of humanity in the past 30,000 years. By the year 2020, that same amount of data will be created in a single hour." Go ahead, swallow. Hard.

Of course, most of that is kitteh lulz and emoticons... :rofl: (Yeah, like that one. I was being ironic. ;) )