“I didn’t talk much about it to my parents – it just kinda bottled up inside.”

If that isn’t a picture of being more connected and less connected than ever … this family needs less connection, more conversation.

…the little devices most of us carry around are so powerful that they change not only what we do, but also who we are.

And:

But connecting in sips doesn’t work as well when it comes to understanding and knowing one another

And:

It’s hard to do anything with 3,000 Facebook friends except connect.

And:

When people are alone, even for a few moments, they fidget and reach for a device. Here connection works like a symptom, not a cure, and our constant, reflexive impulse to connect shapes a new way of being.

(She also gave this talk at TED a few months ago.)

This piece underscores the reason I’m helping co-found a new company that, on the surface, looks just like another social tool but is really a whole lot more.

Now that I am burned out and I’ll never accomplish anything

The morale: do what you love. And if you stop loving it, stop doing it (until you can figure out a way to love it again).

You are at risk if you meet four criteria:

1. You have Java installed on your Mac. […]
2. You do not have the Java for OS X Lion 2012-001 (if you’re running OS X Lion) or Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 7 installed (if you’re running Snow Leopard) or you were infected before either of them was installed. […]
3. You allow Java applets to display in your browser. […]
4. You do not have certain security tools installed on your Mac that Flashback checks for, including Little Snitch, Xcode, and a few anti-malware tools.

The steps to check/remove the trojan are relatively simple, but require use of Terminal.app. Alternatively, F-Secure has released a removal tool you can run.