Today at eight minutes after midnight, before going to bed I opened up my blog to make sure things are working as they should and looked right. I scrolled down to the bottom and what do I see? Right where I have a large (below the fold) Google Adsense Ad is placed an ad image of a dog sledding team carrying a cardboard box the about 2 feet by 3 feet by 3 feet. Maybe you’ve seen it and thought “How appropriate Lernr.com would have this ad” but I had to take a double take.
I actually had to read this ad a couple times to make sure I wasn’t miss reading it. And, I wish I had. Now that I know what it says, I’m hurt. My feeling are shaken and hurt. All the time and energy I pour into the content of this site. All the blood sweet and tears. And this. AND THIS!
I don’t know if I can do it any more. I don’t know if it’s worth it.
I though me and the GOOG had a connection. I thought we were friends, palls, bros. Maybe they are trying to tell me something. You know, drop little hints to let me know what they really think of me.
They could have given me an ad for something like “Try Hard But Fail Casino” or “Take this pill to see yourself for how you really are” but to give me an ad for “Composting Toilets”?
WHY ME? WHAT HAVE I DONE TO YOU GOOGLE!
Our lives are overflowing with information. Everywhere we look we are being screamed at by all sorts of media: books , movies, magazines, blogs, podcasts, newspapers, TV shows, and much more.
At some point we have to make a decision about what to do with it all. We have to either turn it off and throw it away, ignoring it all because we can't take anymore. Or we have to sort the wheat from the chaff, figure out what it is telling us, consider what we can learn from it, and implement that practices that can make us better.
Lernr is about that process of learning what we can from different sources and applying it to our lives.
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
~ Mark Twain
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