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Public policy via bumper stickers

8/4/2019

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​Ransoming our privacy, big words, and the illusion of knowledge, among other deep thoughts for this week…

  1. If your solution can be explained on a bumper sticker, you don’t have a solution.
  2. One of the misleading things about surfing the web is that I will see the same story with the same first sentence 20 times in a day. I end up thinking I’ve read 20 stories on the topic, but really I’ve just re-read the same lead paragraph. I’m much dumber than I’d like to believe.
  3. There's nothing like the feeling of dread that comes when 500 spam messages hit your account at once and you realize someone close to you clicked on the wrong link somewhere.
  4. I can’t wait to check out my photos on Facebook so I can see if I’m having a good time.
  5. I’m really getting tired of all the organizations that insist I download their app so they can serve me better by selling my info to advertisers. This is like the start of the internet age, when everyone pleaded with me to make their website my home page. 
  6. I can’t imagine I am alone in being willing to pay $50 or $100 or $500 per year to never see another pop-up on Facebook or to use an app without giving away every detail about my life and all my contacts.
  7. Pay per click is the three-card Monte of the internet.
  8. Using bigger words doesn't make you sound smarter. Simplistic isn’t simple, fulsome isn't full and grandiose is far from grand.
 
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5 Comments
Larry Clark
8/4/2019 08:53:31 pm

If your solution can be explained on a bumper sticker, you don’t have a real problem.

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Dadwrites
8/19/2019 10:51:16 am

Maybe my problem is that there isn't enough room on my bumper sticker.

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Larry Clark
8/19/2019 11:05:07 am

Or perhaps a car that is really little more than one giant bumper sticker...

David Brimm
8/5/2019 09:39:58 am

Fun stuff. Thanks.

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Dadwrites
8/19/2019 10:51:57 am

Thanks for playing our home game.

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