This Week - Jan 16, 2015

After the self-employment penalties in taxes and benefits, I’m probably coming in under what I could get at a good full-time job in the city, but I don’t have to actually work for someone else on something I don’t care about. I can work in my nice home office, drink my fussy coffee, take a nap after lunch if I want to, and be present for my family as my kid grows up. That’s my definition of success.

— Overcast’s 2014 sales numbers (Marco Arment for Marco.org)

It’s not your story anymore. Get over it.

— Network TV Ate My Life: Eddie Huang on Watching His Memoir Become a Sitcom (Eddie Huang for Vulture)

Love didn’t happen to us. We’re in love because we each made the choice to be.

— To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This (Mandy Len Catron for The New York Times)

Jokes are complicated, context is hard. Rage is easy.

— Justine Sacco Is Good at Her Job, and How I Came To Peace With Her (Sam Biddle for Gawker)

Here’s the thing: in order for fees to work, there needs be something worth paying to avoid. That necessitates, at some level, a strategy that can be described as 'calculated misery.' Basic service, without fees, must be sufficiently degraded in order to make people want to pay to escape it. And that’s where the suffering begins.

— Why Airlines Want to Make You Suffer (Tim Wu for The New Yorker)