{"id":19,"date":"2018-05-04T20:10:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T20:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/04\/may-2018\/"},"modified":"2022-11-15T20:36:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:36:53","slug":"may-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/2018\/05\/may-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"042018: I\u2019ve Never Liked Anything In My Entire Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am at a conference about the internet and mental health. It\u2019s a one-day event and I only bought a ticket because I wanted to hear Katrin Passig and Felix Stalder share their ideas on how the digital transformation influences our brain, our behavior, and how our society handles the \u201cNew\u201d.<\/p>\n

As the speakers discuss the meaning of digital endorsements and interaction (such as \u201clikes\u201d, \u201cfavs\u201d, comments, etc), an older man in the row in front of me leans in to his neighbor: \u201cI\u2019ve never liked anything in my entire life\u201d.<\/p>\n

That sentence stuck with me more than any of the talks or discussions. As an active participant in social media, of course I cannot imagine that someone never \u201cliked\u201d anything. What\u2019s not to like! But out of context, the sentence is deeply saddening. Imagine this elderly person, sitting in a darkened conference room on a sunny day, leaning in to his seat mate, with a cold coffee in his hands, confessing: \u201cI\u2019ve never liked anything in my entire life\u201d. I\u2019m glad that the internet preserved me from this nightmare.<\/p>\n

I have liked and still do like quite a bunch of things in my life. Recently, these albums and playlists, for example:<\/p>\n

1) Baio \u2013 The Names (Spotify link<\/a>). Chris Baio, known as the bassist from Vampire Weekend, makes cheerful indie pop music, and I especially like his album covers and this remix album (Spotify link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

2) Young Fathers \u2013 Cocoa Sugar (Spotify link<\/a>). I know, I\u2019m late to the party, but after their track Shame has been my workout soundtrack for MONTHS, I was looking forward to a new album\u2014and it\u2019s great!<\/p>\n

3) My friend Martin publishes really well-curated playlists on Spotify. Check them out! My current favorites: \u201cCharlottenburg Nord<\/a>\u201c and \u201cHits zum Vergessen<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s intense how Berlin transforms from Europes ugliest\/greyest\/saddest\/dirtiest city into the most wonderful place on earth during spring: I cycle through the streets and have exactly the same thought as every year around that time: There possibly is no better city for me to exist in than here. I hope you enjoy spring as much as I do! Have a good one, and talk to you soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am at a conference about the internet and mental health. It\u2019s a one-day event and I only bought a ticket because I wanted to hear Katrin Passig and Felix Stalder share their ideas on how the digital transformation influences our brain, our behavior, and how our society handles the \u201cNew\u201d. As the speakers discuss … 042018: I\u2019ve Never Liked Anything In My Entire Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1206],"tags":[44,42,41,16,40,2,43],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christels-corner","tag-christels-corner","tag-diary","tag-english","tag-music","tag-newsletter","tag-text","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2727,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/2727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}