It costs nothing to follow 1 million people on twitter. But what's the cost of distraction? Following even 1000 people on twitter is ridiculous. There's no possible way you can keep track of who's doing what. Trim the people who no longer inspire you. Trim the dude who tweets whenever he buys a sandwich. Trim the COMPLAINERS. It's tough, because it feels like you're going to lose something, but you'll gain so much more. Ditch people for the sake of your own clarity. Drop the 'under performing' folks for new beginnings. And please, if you don't dig my tweets, please drop me!
What if Google is just some insane religion?
This is the Google Doodle today:
It looks startlingly similar to one of those amazing Jehovah's Witness drawings:
It's Good Friday AND Earth Day today. A coincidence. Or is it? Google's motto is 'Don't be evil' and their mission statement is to organize all the world's information. Those fit in line with pretty much all the major religions. Be good to others, question nothing. God knows everything. So does Google. Or at least Google is trying to know everything.
Most people I know scoff at the idea of organized religion. They see it as a throwback to primitive times. A time when the uneducated masses believed everything that was told to them. To them, organized religion has no place in our world. We're better than that, they say. But to all you folks that will never pray at the altar of some organized religion, how many of you will ask the almighty Google a question today? And how many of you will blindly click on the first link that's served to you?
Will we one day look back on Google as some sort of insane cult? Will we shake our heads in disbelief that the masses were so unilaterally led? Will Sergey Brin and Larry Page be seen by our offspring as extremely influential nutjobs like Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard. Google's underlying technology is called Pagerank, after all. I talked to Sergey at a conference last week and he was wearing a backpack...that's always a sign somebody's up to something, right?
Anywho....
To all you sinners out there, go forth in your quest for knowledge, but be wary of the single voice who promises paradise and absolute truth.
It looks startlingly similar to one of those amazing Jehovah's Witness drawings:
It's Good Friday AND Earth Day today. A coincidence. Or is it? Google's motto is 'Don't be evil' and their mission statement is to organize all the world's information. Those fit in line with pretty much all the major religions. Be good to others, question nothing. God knows everything. So does Google. Or at least Google is trying to know everything.
Most people I know scoff at the idea of organized religion. They see it as a throwback to primitive times. A time when the uneducated masses believed everything that was told to them. To them, organized religion has no place in our world. We're better than that, they say. But to all you folks that will never pray at the altar of some organized religion, how many of you will ask the almighty Google a question today? And how many of you will blindly click on the first link that's served to you?
Will we one day look back on Google as some sort of insane cult? Will we shake our heads in disbelief that the masses were so unilaterally led? Will Sergey Brin and Larry Page be seen by our offspring as extremely influential nutjobs like Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard. Google's underlying technology is called Pagerank, after all. I talked to Sergey at a conference last week and he was wearing a backpack...that's always a sign somebody's up to something, right?
Anywho....
To all you sinners out there, go forth in your quest for knowledge, but be wary of the single voice who promises paradise and absolute truth.
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