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“Koan 2: Perfection is Normal” was really interesting when I thought about it. I remember being in middle school and rushing to my stereo when my new favorite song came on so that I could hit the “record” button. I had to have the cassette take queued up and ready to go. A few years later, in high school, downloading music was the thing to do. I thought nothing of getting on Limewire and downloading my favorite songs—the only issue then was maybe the quality wasn’t great, or there was also the risk you were downloading a virus that was about to wreck your whole world. But then intellectual property laws came to be and the whole Napster law suite happened…and I never REALLY thought about it. I always figured it was about the artists not being able to make money, but I never heard of people getting in trouble for taping things off the radio. It’s interesting that the copies are exact now. But taking it one step further…what about people who “give you their bits?” One of my favorite new artists puts his new albums on his website for free for his fans to download. Is this him not having less bits just because he gave some away?
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Chasity,
I agree with that too. Social media, has made us less social in a way because we are living through it instead of using it as a tool to show how we are living. I don’t mean to make it sound like it (social media) is a bad thing, because I think it can be a really useful means of communication, but it has made me realize that I’ve become kind of lazy with my interactions with other people. My mom lives out of the country and we stay in touch through facebook and skype. But I actually haven’t had skype call with her in months. Normally, I would worry about not having a conversation with my own mother for that long, but I find myself saying, “Oh she’s okay. She liked my picture last night.” It’s so sad.
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I’m going to go ahead and assume that it’s not an accident that this is one of our first reading assignments for this class. When I read the title of the chapter I thought to myself, “Yes, please, HELP ME.” I think it’s hard enough to concentrate on school in general, but doing everything online like this while trying to work full time and do an internship capstone and manage responsibilities at home pulls me in every direction possible. And I am definitely one of those people who gets nothing done when I obsess over everything I have to do at one time.
I agree that it takes time and practice to condition your mind to focus. And I find it challenging. It takes so much work to make a conscious act a subconscious reaction. The chapter tells us to limit outside distractions, which I find both obvious and difficult to do. I guess the self-discipline involved must become a habit to adopt as well.
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I’m worried too- I have to leave for work soon. I usually don’t get off until 10 PM and I don’t get a break, so I can’t check in during my shift. I thought that there would be a set day that our work would be do, like every Friday by 5PM.
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Hello everyone! My name is Erica. I will be graduating from the RBA program this semester with my concentration in Professional Writing and Editing. I currently live in Shepherdstown, WV and I work in Hagerstown, MD as a pastry chef. I am taking this class because I literally know nothing about this kind of writing and I wanted my foundation as a writer to be as diverse as possible. So, anything we learn will be a vast improvement to what I’m already familiar with- which is nothing, haha.
Aside from cooking, I like to read, crochet, crossfit, watch movie marathons, and sing loudly in the car. -
@marvarlas I thought your post was really interesting because I just had a conversation on the same subject with my dad the other night. He works in IT at the Pentagon and has a clearance. He was warning me against posting things on Facebook and other social media because they take that into consideration when they background check you for clearances. I am pretty careful now what I post on social media, but when I got Facebook in 2005 or MySpace before that, I wasn’t careful at all. It makes me wonder…we are entering an age where people are less private-children and adults- and I wonder if things like that will change. I wonder if people will look at social media usage and deem things acceptable if they were a certain age, or if posting something when you were a teenager could affect your job prospects when you are 40.
