Svbtle Post: Paul Miller's Leaving the Internet for a Year—Why?
A writer for The Verge, Paul posted his plans on the site to much internet acclaim and kudos. Cute idea, and a fun challenge if you want to randomly cut things out of your life to earn some strange badge of honor. But my question to Paul and everyone who gave him virtual pats on the back is: Why?
Great post. I also really like the view of how this actually makes others lives and work more difficult, to work around this one persons self-inflicted handicap - just to literally show off.
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internet-haze reblogged this from maniacalrage and added:
— Garett Murray,...Miller’s Leaving
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mattgriffin said:
Because it was the best thing he could think of to get attention? That’s my guess. I’ll be ignoring him from now on out of principle.
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jnbrl reblogged this from maniacalrage and added:
A writer for The Verge, Paul posted his plans on the site to much internet acclaim and kudos. Cute idea, and a fun...
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jackbaty reblogged this from maniacalrage and added:
I don’t buy all of Miller’s reasons either, but he does say things like “In my wild fantasies…” so he knows it’s just an...
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jmlumpkin reblogged this from maniacalrage and added:
Great post. I also really like...how this actually makes others lives and work more...
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ryansholin said:
Pageviews?
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lauraglu said:
It also seems flippant. Is he moving to Rwanda to do this?
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