Fixie Friday - Rodagira Zorlac 2
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Dunbar's Number
A little reminder that while we're connected in more ways now than we have ever been, our number of meaningful connections doesn't change at all.
The lesson to learn from Dunbar might be this: our pursuit of building ever-expanding and “influential” networks might be a fundamentally vain pursuit. Rarely, perhaps never, do our lives comprise of more than about 150 meaningful relationships. Although a digitally connective world might suggest that the size of our network is representative of our ‘value’ or ‘potential’ to have an influence on others, our human network capacity probably has not really changed at all.
— One Hundred and Fifty People: Revisiting Dunbar’s Number by Caesura Letters
I'm Busy
In case you didn't notice, it's been real busy here at Lang HQ. Client work, side project work and volunteer work have been the focus of the week as well as one important family commitment this week. I'm hoping next week isn't as busy.
I finally sat down to watch #citizenfour last night. Amazing documentary.
Fixie Friday - Colnago Master
I might end up paying more in delivery charges, but I don’t order as much anymore. Prime lets you impulse buy, which isn’t a good thing.
Haven’t looked back since cancelling my Amazon Prime subscription. Rather than relying on next day delivery, I just order in advance.
The trick, of course, is to choose the small tasks which Vilfredo Pareto - he of the 80/20 Rule - would designate as among the vital few; i.e. the ones which will produce the greatest beneficial results. If you don't set such priorities, then your time may be squandered by the successful completion of work which produces relatively little progress or which merely restores the status-quo.
— Small Tasks by Michael Wade
That one is going in my DailyMuse collection.
Self-Destruct Tweets
A very interesting idea.
Lazin-Ryder is one of a number of Twitter users who are using homegrown methods to make their tweets self-destruct. He says that having his tweets disappear automatically makes Twitter feel more conversational and casual, and less like a professional pressure-cooker.
— Meet the tweet-deleters: people who are making their Twitter histories self-destruct by Fusion