“We’re not born with unlimited choices. We can’t be anything we want to be. We come into this world with a specific, individual destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it. Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
Steven Pressfield
Things that make you go hmmm
More Baby Boomers Are Drowning In Student Loan Debt–And No One Knows How Bad It Will Get
It’s not just a millennial problem. Student loan debt increased eightfold among Americans aged 60-64 in the last decade. Is anyone paying attention?
Source: More Baby Boomers Are Drowning In Student Loan Debt–And No One Knows How Bad It Will Get
Aging
“Aging is very strange. It’s as if one has had so many different lives already. I think I need a little bit more time to understand, to feel what I really want to do. Over the time that’s left.”
Martha Argerich
The Suburbs Made Us Fat – The Atlantic
The Suburbs Made Us Fat – The Atlantic.
I will not make a snarky comment because I live in the suburbs and drive everywhere.
Tablet and E-reader Ownership Update – Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
The number of Americans ages 16 and older who own tablet computers has grown to 35%, and the share who have e-reading devices like Kindles and Nooks has grown to 24%. Overall, the number of people who have a tablet or an e-book reader among those 16 and older now stands at 43%.
Up from 25% last year, more than half of those in households earning $75,000 or more now have tablets. Up from 19% last year, 38% of those in upper-income households now have e-readers.
via Tablet and E-reader Ownership Update | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
Hmmm…