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# This Week - Dec 06, 2013
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/this-week-2013-12-06/
- Published: 2013-12-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T03:10:44.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: link, coffee, evan williams, jennifer cacicio, lilly o'donnell, marco arment, marco.org, matt richtel, medium, narratively, penny arcade, punch, rolf potts, the new york times, this week, #import-blog-backlog-2026-09-13

> By the mid-2000s, however, social media had erased the popular distinction between which life-moments were and were not worthy of public consumption. In the process, it became normal to assemble and project one’s domestic identity for a much broader (and dimly defined) notion of community. Reflexive photo-mania, once a stereotype that defined tourists, had transformed into a ritual of home.  
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> — [Selfies and the Touristification of Everyday Experience (Rolf Potts for Medium)](https://medium.com/editors-picks/c4787112603c?ref=drewshannon.net)

> I was looking for GIRLS to use alcohol to say something profound about youth, but the fact is that it actually speaks more to the notion of what it means to be an adult.  
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> — [(Not) Drinking with GIRLS’s Hannah Horvath (Jennifer Cacicio for Punch)](http://punchdrink.com/articles/not-drinking-with-girls-hannah-horvath/?ref=drewshannon.net)

> 'In the early days, I bought into the idea that the Internet would lead to a better world, that the truth was out there and that we didn’t need gatekeepers,' he said. The idea that he and many others embraced was that an unfiltered Internet would create a democratic information utopia. 'Now,' he continued, 'I think it’s more complicated than that.'  
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> — [A Founder of Twitter Goes Long (Matt Richtel for New York Times)](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/business/a-founder-of-twitter-goes-long.html?pagewanted=all&%5Fr=0&ref=drewshannon.net)

> This is everything wrong with tech-startup culture, unreasonable expectations, and workaholism in one job posting, by a company with a massive audience that probably contains a very high percentage of young software developers.  
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> — [Penny Arcade’s Insultingly Horrible Job (Marco Arment for Marco.org)](http://www.marco.org/2013/11/26/penny-arcade-awful-job?ref=drewshannon.net)

> A watered down, slightly burnt cup of cheap coffee in an even cheaper paper cup with a lid that doesn’t quite fit can be one of life’s most satisfying small victories. Hold that leaky cup in the air like Lady Liberty’s torch as proof that your life is still your own, even during a brutal commute, too early in the morning, to a job you hate that doesn’t pay enough.  
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> — [An Ode to Beautiful Brown Sludge (Lilly O'Donnell for Narratively)](http://narrative.ly/caffeinated-city/an-ode-to-beautiful-brown-sludge/?ref=drewshannon.net)