Tag: first world problems
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Your Internet is not Getting Slower
……..you’re becoming more impatient. This blog is about identity – with a focus on “becoming.” Then there’s this underlying current of how technology or new media has an impact on how we are “becoming.” I was watching a news segment this and there was a commercial about how slow our…
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The Culture of Want
We have only been living in a Culture of Want for about a hundred years. Only until we mechanized the production of thing did we start to market to people’s wants. Before that time, it was a Culture of Need. We only bought what we needed. We only built what…
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First World Problems
I’ve written about First World Problems before. I hear people talk about first world problems, but what do we really know about first world problems. We talk about first world problems to give us perspective on how well we have it and how much we complain. I have only been…
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Where I Come From
I recently watched a talk that someone gave from my Homeland – the Philippines. I was born in the Philippines. We moved to Hawaii when I was five. I have been back a few times, but that is Where I Came From. As I watched, I was impressed by the…