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"Still, the most interesting part of the interview came when Sorkin admitted to not using Facebook, explaining that social networking is more of a performance than a reality. “Socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality,” he told Colbert."

Justin Timberlake and Aaron Sorkin Not That Into Facebook

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If asked about the veracity of my me*, I’d have to tell Colbert, too, that it was/it is “fiction. I’m sorry, fact!”. “Socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.”
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"To have a blog is to have some portion of your brain assigned to monitoring your audience. I don’t want to do that anymore. I want to hole up and think not of humans, but of work. I want quieter days with less stimulation from this increasingly buzzy world of external opinions and missions. I want big chunks where I don’t even think of myself. When work becomes truly ecstatic, everything else vaporizes… there are no thoughts of ‘how will it be received’ or ‘how would I turn this into something profitable’ or ‘could a company one day grow around this’ … I just want to quietly make shit for a while."

Jake Lodwick, announcing his blog retirement

“I don’t have a more specific reason than “it’s time for something new”. I started using Tumblr in April 2007. Back then my blog was called “Obeastiality” and I loved the low friction between wanting to post and posting. Two point eight thousand posts later and I can say I’ve had a good run, but this open line to the world feels a little distracting from the work I want to do next. What work is that? I don’t know exactly but I think it involves being pretty isolated from other brains for a while.

I spent the last few years deciding what I would do, then doing it, often with catastrophic results. I’m an obsessive, creative person, and all these self imposed “hey guys, now I’m working on this” phases were probably the worst possible structures I could build for myself. Clearly-labeled boxes quickly feel like jail cells to me. Feeling in-control and well-marketed are not my priorities at this point.

When the next Odwick season ends, I’m going to let my right brain dominate for a while — I’m not going to say what I am or what I’m working on. I’m just going to wake up each morning and work on whatever interests me, including ‘nothing’ if that’s the order of the day. I’m confident that this is the best strategy for now, even though I won’t have a standard answer when some new person asks me ‘what I do’.

I’m not certain that this is why I’m shutting down my blog, but I think there’s a connection.”

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