Nate Shivar

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Opinion

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

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There has been a lot of digital ink spilled over why discourse and *waves arm at world* has been so…weird.

One issue I’ve had with a lot of that spilled ink it that it has been too America focused when countries around the world – large and small – from Brazil to Chile to India to France to the UK to The Philippines have been going through similar dynamics.

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid by Jonathan Haidt focuses on America, but covers widely-covered villain (social media) in a way that is just as applicable to The Philippines as it is to America.

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Build Cities for Bikes, Buses, and Feet—Not Cars

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Driving is an enforced preference. The modern American city is designed to favor cars and make other ways of getting around suck. That’s been true for at least six decades, but today our limited ability to imagine different shapes for cities is causing environmental collapse. It’s time to hit the brakes. Want to cut carbon? Get people to drive less. But to do it, we’ll need different kinds of cities.

Build Cities for Bikes, Buses, and Feet—Not Cars | WIRED

I live in the City of Atlanta where biking is much easier than the sprawling metro area. We’re (slowly) building out a dedicated bike path around the city center, and (slowly) building bike lanes around the city.

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5 Lessons From Simplifying Online Life

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A few weeks ago, I started drastically paring back all the tools, feeds, news sites, and networks that I use. And the ones that I do use everyday – I started figuring out how to simplify, automate, and gain more control.

It started with reducing the number of task “gathering places” (Getting Things Done parlance) and snowballed into affecting pretty much my entire digital life, and has now become a full-fledged start-2013-off-right kind of deal (and apparently I’m not the only one).

Here’s a few lessons I’ve learned that you can apply to make your digital life a bit better…

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