{"id":1304,"date":"2011-09-08T08:07:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T08:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2011\/09\/happiness-or-truth-choose-one\/"},"modified":"2011-09-08T08:07:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T08:07:06","slug":"happiness-or-truth-choose-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2011\/09\/happiness-or-truth-choose-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness or truth, choose one"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Word? Word.<\/em><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how to describe the feeling. I\u2019m jetlagged ten hours in the future from the Pacific coast but my stream of information still comes from the past, from the US. Which is weird because it\u2019s news, from Facebook to rss. It\u2019s like total reverse from how time works on Earth. I\u2019m in the future<\/em>, getting the now<\/em> talking about the future<\/em>, from the past<\/em>. It\u2019s freaking me out. <\/p>\n

Before when you were changing time zone you didn\u2019t have this problem as you would have a strict cut from the location you were before. With our digital lifestyle, it\u2019s so much blurrier. And I have both timezone wired in my brain now. The vicious part is that it\u2019s more comfortable to wake up and read the news from the day before (which are the news of the day too, a looong day) than having them during the real<\/em> day, compromising your productivity. It\u2019s cool to end the day and have the time to check tweets and links from the US, the source control of 90% of what\u2019s happening online (most of the interesting links I see in my US Twitter stream show up in my French Facebook stream, a week to three months later). I can really dig a subject instead of saving it for later that is, never go through it when I\u2019m in California.<\/p>\n

Problem is, it\u2019s not that sane.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m here in France with my English name, my English writing, my English thoughts, my English reading, my English music and a hell lot of English culture. Which obviously raises the following question in the neutral-logic part of my brain: \u201cso\u2026 What are you doing here again?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The line between \u201cit\u2019s complicated\u201d<\/em> and \u201cwhat a clusterfuck\u201d<\/em> is often thinner than expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Word? Word. I don\u2019t know how to describe the feeling. I\u2019m jetlagged ten hours in the future from the Pacific coast but my stream of information still comes from the past, from the US. Which is weird because it\u2019s news, from Facebook to rss. It\u2019s like total reverse from how time works on Earth. I\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}