Mark Morford: How to Stay Relevant


	Mark Morford: How to Stay Relevant

Lexica

6-10-2009 2:37 PM

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flexibility, change, mark-morford, progress

Lexica says:

You might have earned sufficient wisdom (or its ugly stepsister, bitterness) to see right through the grand charade, note the absurdity of it all, the delightful pointlessness, entirely happy to let the high-tech zeitgeist zip right on by, full of sound and fury and a billion useless Tweets, signifying nothing.

I agree completely. But only partially. After all, there's nothing better than being fully engaged and relevant and dialed in. Except choosing not to, sometimes. You know?

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