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Just stumbled upon an amazing comment Andrew Lewis (andlewis.com) made on a MetaFilter discussion 2 years ago:
“If you’re not paying for something, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.”
Brian Clark (copyblogger.com) used the quote in a G+ post about the long-delayed URL shortening of Google Plus profiles. I had never heard it before.
This suggests two things:
- No matter how much I want to think I’m a hip informed geek; I’m not.
- There’s still more information out there than you can ever process.
A slightly better and positive way to look at it is that there’s no reason to feel responsible to keep up on everything; you can’t. That should feel liberating. Put more simply in my own words:
“There’s more amazing in the world than you can ever experience and this is a good thing.”
