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Image Credit: Igor Kasalovic
With my wife’s grandmother’s death this past week, I was out of the office for a few days. As my luck runs, a relatively serious issue came up at work that required my professional attention. So in the midst of grieving with my family, I was furiously thumbing my iPhone for updates. As one co-worker put it, “It’s the paradox of being ‘always’ connected – makes it hard to feel like you can disconnect.” And she was exactly right.
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This past weekend, my wife’s grandmother passed away. Sitting in an intensive care waiting room I did what any other person in need of an escape would do—I started Tweeting.
Mostly it was a way to distract myself, but being on Twitter was far more valuable to me than grabbing a magazine or watching TV.
The reason? Human connection.
When the internet was born, the availability of products at good prices is what drove commerce. Think of the Amazon empire—a store smart enough to provide you with personalized recommendations for products you’d probably like. For Amazon, product is king.
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