“An alternative is to be happy wherever you are, with whatever you’ve got, but always hungry for the thrill of creating art, of being missed if you’re gone and most of all, doing important work.”

“Is this real progress, or a sop to people who criticize H&M — and the entire fashion industry — for building in planned obsolescence in the form of “last season’s clothes”? Certainly, pushes for organic clothes could have a real effect in the long run. Cotton is disproportionately eco-hostile, accounting for 16 percent of insecticide use worldwide. But a greener option is buying clothes that aren’t going to be outdated or disintegrated in a year — something that says “Look out! I know what I’m wearing for the rest of my my life.”

“Putting aside its recent struggles due to a price increase and confusion over its DVD-by-mail strategy, Netflix is still the most popular streaming service available today, with about 24 million users in the U.S. alone. But Netflix didn’t become popular because it had the best content library available; it beat the competition because it was available on practically every connected device users might have purchased over the last 12 months.”