This Week - Jan 17, 2014

'But Mercer, you run a business. You need to participate online. These are your customers, and this is how they express themselves, and how you know if you're succeeding.' Mae's mind churned through a half-dozed Circle tools she knew would help his business, but Mercer was an underachiever. An underachiever who somehow managed to be smug about it.

'See, that's not true, Mae. It's not true. I know I'm successful if I sell chandeliers. If people order them, then I make them, and they pay me money for them. If they have something to say afterward, they can call me or write me. I mean, all this stuff you're involved in, it's all gossip. It's people talking about each other behind their backs. That's the vast majority of this social media, all these reviews, all these comments. Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication. And besides that, its fucking dorky.'

— I'm currently reading (and loving) Dave Eggers' newest book The Circle

I saw (and loved) Spike Jonze's new movie 'Her' earlier this week. Lance Bangs, in conjunction with Vice's The Creator's Project recently created a spectacular mini-documentary about Love In The Modern Age.

It's tempting to see your enemies as evil, but there's good and evil on both sides of every war ever fought

— The new season of Game of Thrones can't come soon enough.