{"id":4134,"date":"2014-07-24T01:50:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T01:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2014-07-23T02:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T02:33:00","slug":"linked-the-last-of-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/07\/24\/linked-the-last-of-offline\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: The last of “Offline”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve linked to the year feature that The Verge did with Paul Miller a few times. Unfortunately, my Instapaper queue forgot a few of these posts and I finally found them last month.<\/p>\n

Below are 3 more features I thought fun to link:<\/p>\n

how my creativity got killed<\/a><\/p>\n

I have a running joke with a friend about how audiophiles, past a certain dollar figure, lose all semblance of musical taste. I think it\u2019s because it\u2019s about consumption; you need to find the perfect \u201ccontent\u201d to show off your sound system. I guess that\u2019s the word I hate the most: \u201ccontent.\u201d It suggests an empty terabyte on your DVR to fill, 40 hours of evening free time to consume, a distribution pipeline to monetize. At some point, do I consume content, or does it consume me? I want inspiration, not a 4K babysitter.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

love, loss, and dating without Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if you know this, but I have a terrible memory. Like, monumentally bad. It\u2019s not just for facts and figures, either. I don\u2019t remember faces very well. Sometimes when I would meet up with her, I\u2019d be waiting on a corner and keep thinking I\u2019d seen her, and it would take a second to realize it wasn\u2019t her. And then when I finally saw her, my memory would putter to life and go \u201coh yeah, THAT\u2019S what she looks like.\u201d I don\u2019t want to sound all sappy or anything, but she was always better looking than I\u2019d remembered.<\/em><\/p>\n

For our quasi-dates I relied on word-of-mouth recommendations for restaurants and things to do. I grabbed a brochure from a community organization in her neighborhood. Sometimes we\u2019d just walk and look around for something to strike our fancy. I dedicated a couple of pages in my Moleskine to listing useful facts about her, or the name of an artist she liked. And yes, I sent her some snail mail.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

boiling it down to the essentials<\/a><\/p>\n

Without the internet, my world has shrunk. It\u2019s all very simple, and if maybe I still don\u2019t understand it, at least I can see it all at once. My folder called \u201cnotes\u201d has 1,097 items in it. 470 of those text files were created or modified after I left the internet. That\u2019s literally all I\u2019ve created since I left the internet.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Great insights. I can relate to these in many ways. The articles are great and I appreciate the world Paul did while offline for a year. He has certainly changed my thinking and, at least I feel less alone in the isolation that is self-inflicted out here in the woods.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d prefer to be more isolated. The only thing holding me back is my job.No immediate changes planned but I do dream of building that bomb shelter one day underground, V for Vendetta style. We\u2019ll see what the future holds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve linked to the year feature that The Verge did with Paul Miller a few times. 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