Via Jason Kottke,
Tim Urban’s mind blowing timeline infographic truly, truly Puts Time in Perspective like nothing else.
Day: 6 January 2015
How To Bounce Back From Burnout
Carol Ross writing in Forbes explains Four Phases necessary to Bounce Back From Burnout…
Phase 3 is about rewiring your brain, so new neural pathways are formed to replace old habits of thinking. This step is critical, because thoughts lead to emotions, which lead to behavior.
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Changing your thought pattern to more positive, constructive thoughts is like upgrading your “operating system.” And just like a computer, when you do that, everything runs more smoothly.
Furthermore, Ross gives five How-To helpers for Phase 3. Number four:
4. Choose your beliefs and then test them in the world daily. In the video, Celebrate What’s Right With the World, a photographer for National Geographic gives examples of how his beliefs influenced what he was able to see, and thus capture in photos. He calls this: “Believing is seeing.”
That more than anything else, is the best articulation of the nagging feeling of why I need to return to photoblogging properly on a daily basis.
What Facebook Does (To You)
Manuela Brand writes in depth about abandoning Facebook.
The social media phase of the Internet ended – messaging is the new social media
Fred Wilson asked What Just Happened in 2014 and shared ten insights.
Here are the first two:
1/ the social media phase of the Internet ended. this may have happened a few years ago actually but i felt it strongly this year. entrepreneurs and developers still build social applications. we still use them. but there isn’t much innovation here anymore. the big platforms are mature. their place is secure.
2/ messaging is the new social media. this may be part of what is going on in 1/. families use whatsapp groups instead of facebook. kids use snapchat instead of instagram. facebook’s acquisition of whatsapp in february of this year was the transaction that defined this trend.
This morning, Martin Weigert looks back and explains How everybody was wrong about the future of Social Networking.
This is just anecdotal but I know people who have completely abandoned Facebook and use now a combination of Instagram and WhatsApp (or other messengers) to satisfy their social networking needs. I do not rule out that this becomes a widespread phenomenon.
That will resonate with any number of diehard BBM addicts I know.