December 17, 2010
All of it comes at us endlessly (and thoughtlessly), and — if we surrender — we will be overtaken and absorbed. Yet this war is manageable, if not necessarily winnable. As long we keep deleting whatever’s directly in front of us, we survive.
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Chuck Klosterman - How Modern Life Is Like A Zombie Onslaught (via New York Times)
I was just telling a friend yesterday how my life seems to be consumed with lists. Lists of things to do, lists of things to read, watch, and listen to. Whether it’s my Netflix queue, my RSS feed, my Instapaper unread list, my New York Public Library books-to-read list, my Twitter or Tumblr stream, or my email inboxes, my life seems to be filled with things that need to be checked off.
Not making a judgment on it at all. It’s just kind of exhausting.
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