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3rd May 2011

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The injuries that accompany hitting F5 repeatedly. →

We’re Sisyphus, and social media is often the stone we push up the Mountain of Completion. The stone slips, and we obligingly trudge back down to get it with the hope that this time, we’ll get caught up. And we never do.

I have the sensation, as do my friends, that to function as a proficient human, you must both “keep up” with the internet and pursue more serious, analog interests.…It’s so exhausting to exist on both registers, especially while holding down a job. It feels like tedious work to be merely conversationally competent. I make myself schedules, breaking down my commute to its most elemental parts and assigning each leg of my journey something different to absorb: podcast, Instapaper article, real novel of real worth, real magazine of dubious worth. I’m pretty tired by the time I get to work at 9 AM.

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