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Another way to say "let the bits go"
Quoting Virginia Heffernan's recent NYT column:
Anyone with a strong soul or a fat wallet turns his ringer off for good and cultivates private gardens that keep the hectic Web far away. The man of leisure, Sterling suggested, savors solitude, or intimacy with friends, presumably surrounded by books and film and paintings and wine and vinyl -- original things that stay where they are and cannot be copied and corrupted and shot around the globe with a few clicks of a keyboard.
In other words, let the bits go, as I preach in Bit Literacy. Or maybe that's a privilege reserved for those with extra willpower or other resources?
I love "letting the bits go" such a great concept. IMHO it can be for everybody regardless of the amount of resources available to them(although willpower does have to be there).
I think the man of leisure will let plenty of atoms go, too. He must be able to discriminate which things he will truly savor. The worth of things (physical and digital, too) is not defined by size/quantity; but rather by quality and meaning.
Letting the bits go is a great idea. It an idea which also applies, especially in this case, to New York Times columnists who write drivel in the modern age. Virginia Heffernan, whom I have recently (after her "I hate the iPhone" piece) come to regard as an idiot, is not on my media diet. I refuse to read her and, increasingly, more and more of the NYT magazine. I like it better when you do your own preaching.