Dear Google Reader,
All I want for Christmas is a tiny little “mark as read” checkbox. Today I was in meetings all day. I’m in my room with 250 items to read and here’s my dilemma… Read the rest of this article »
My seven-year-old daughter will never have known her parents to be without cell phones or laptops. She had a computer lab at her preschool. We rent movies from a red box – like buying a soda. And she’s convinced her daddy made Twitter, whatever that is. Read the rest of this article »
Someone does something cool and talks about it. It gets talked about by other circles of casual observers. It gets included in a list of great things done by different people out there who are all doing great things. The list of great things done by those people gets talked about by people who like lists of great things done by people out there. That list gets talked about on a whole list of outlets made for publishing lists of lists of great things done by people out there.
We could complain that there are too many lists. We could even get jealous when we aren’t recognized as one of the great people doing great things. Or… we could recognize that the web is a web. It’s impartial and fair to everyone. It’s a bit social, made by people, and therefore imperfect, but it’s kind of nice compared to the absence of a web.
A bit confusing? That’s why they call it the web.
If you tweet much at all, and you go on vacation, you’re bound to want to tweet about your trip. But you could tweet your way to being robbed. You’re telling everyone about being away from home, after all. So @nealwiser and I did a bit of brainstorming about some great vacation tweets. Wanted to pass along, strictly out of concern for your personal property, of course…
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Here’s something I find funny. It’s how quick we are to complain about everything that gets handed to us for free. We may just be the most spoiled generation in history, but we tend to suck the joy out of freebies. Examples, you ask?
I could go on, but you get the picture. Now here’s a life-changing truth…
An attitude of gratitude will change everything in and around you for the positive! In fact, it’s scientifically proven that just expressing thoughts of gratitude triggers the release of seratonin (the happy hormone) in the brain. Maybe we’ll get over our grumpiness and depression when we start being a bit more thankful.
Now, feel free to chime in about this post, but don’t complain… you’re reading it for free.
