Welcome to the next short, sweet version of the Timestamp Newsletter ( which is getting closer to coming to your inbox vs just a post into the great void). If you’re new to the website – the Newsletter is a collection of random thoughts and items that if you spend your finite time on them, you won’t be sorry. The longer articles are more in depth discussions and explorations of how to best utilize our time in a demanding ( dare I say “needy”) world.
Here’s the latest – ENJOY!
- Random Thought: Despite all of our obsessions over money, we still measure everything in time units. There are still no tombstones that list ‘Net Worth’ when you die. ( mind the word “obsessions.” I’ll not sit here and tell you that money isn’t important, but if it’s your sole focus, your life is not what it should be. Full stop).
- Amazing Live Album: Daft Punk – ALIVE 2007. Most people don’t think of ‘Electronic Music’ when they think of a Live Albums. It’s logical. I get it. However, if you can listen to this one and not hear masters at work AND not get pumped up… well… maybe check your pulse too.
- Article – Wired Magazine – Luke Burgis, Author of the wonderful book “Wanting” attempts to unravel how we humans have come to have Athens, Jerusalem, and now Silicon Valley determine for us what is good and true. A far more complicated and historied problem than meets they eye, and with Artificial Intelligence moving at the speed that it is, something to pay very close attention to.
- Two Decades into the Social Media experiment, we went from posting about what we were doing at that very moment. What was on our mind. We’d snap pics of our meal ( some still do that, but to a lesser extent). We’d post our locations until that became a little scary ( some still do, of course). We are certainly addicted to Social Media and their hooks are in us deep. The statistics of physical and “mental health” ( though certainly not defined well) aren’t going in the right direction. However, there have to be some positives out there. There has been some good that has come from it? Crimes may be easier to solve with all of the freely offered evidence that people post on a regular basis. Charities have access to my eyes and hearts than they did previously to tell their stories. Information about loved ones that are far away may have never been known without it; causing a reconnection that was important and meaningful. It’s hard to measure objectively, but would be curious to know what you think about the “positives” of social media usage are, vs their very obvious flaws? Shoot me an email about it!
- “You may delay, but time will not” – Benjamin Franklin ( There’s a great biography done on him by the incomparable Walter Isaacson – check it out)
UNTIL next time, everyone – USE the time!
Andrew L Hamilton 