I was really going to post original content today. Really. But Exams got in the way, so we moved them for "roads and newsprint and wreckage" (John Woods).
So, here's a share of Warren Ellis' latest rant from the future (as he published it Thursday 12/6).
It's a good one.
FROM - http://morning.computer/2018/12/that-shingy-life/
THAT SHINGY LIFE
One of the things that’s come to bother me over the last year is seeing people falling into constantly being on the road and giving talks, pausing only to dump a tweetstorm before going somewhere else and doing talks, week after week, month after month. Not least because I worry they’re going to turn into Shingy.
You remember Shingy. David Shing. “Digital prophet” for Oath, bats around the world as a brand ambassador, talking, talking, talking, making little sense and making no cultural mark.
During a half-awake session of link-surfing while full of flu meds the other week, I happened across the blog of one of those guys who was always doing talks and camps and streams and conferences and all the fucking rest of it. He’s in his fifties now. On his blog, he notes that he has tiny savings and even after downsizing he and his wife both need full-time income streams to keep the lights on and the kids fed.
Put another way — even a year ago, before his business hit some self-inflicted disasters, he would have had jack shit to show for that Shingy life.
(Because Shingy, you know, has been on a six-figure salary for years.)
Now, said guy has always been a braying idiot who was wrong about everything. But I worry for the other people.
A thought for the new year: try to stay home for a bit and make some things that might last, please?
And yes, yes, I know, precarity, cobbled-together career skeins, gets harder all the time, freedom versus drowning in platform capitalism, I know.
But a privileged white man from Silicon Valley with an address list fatter than Ron Jeremy’s phone book did it all century and has fuck all to show for it, so how do you think that’s going to work out for you?
READING: REPUBLIC OF LIES, Anna Merlan, which is fucking brilliant (PREORDER UK) (PREORDER US)
MORNING, COMPUTER
WARREN ELLIS ON GREENWICH MEAN TIME
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1812.04 - 10:10
- Days ago = 1283 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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