This Week - May 03, 2013

Right now, the things that bring me pleasure in life are riding mountain bikes, playing pool, making things, and cooking in the evening for my little family. These are the things that keep me from going off the rails. They are the things that make it seem to me that there aren’t enough hours in the day.

— Teaching Cancer To Cry

We may not recognize ourselves in photographs from our past, but it does not mean we were different people.

— Andrew McMahon

My life looks better on the Internet than it does in real life.

— Relevant Magazine

I wanted to do something great with my life but had zero direction until a camera was put in my hands. But at the start it was almost like being lost in the desert and finding a compass. That had no needle.

— Zack Arias

I'd read enough blog posts and magazine articles and books about how the internet makes us lonely, or stupid, or lonely and stupid, that I'd begun to believe them. I wanted to figure out what the internet was "doing to me," so I could fight back. But the internet isn't an individual pursuit, it's something we do with each other. The internet is where people are.

— The Verge