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I don’t understand the point of the new Klout. If the idea is to measure and, perhaps, grow my influence, why would sharing content they suggest I share, content that they presumably suggest to lots of people to share, why would this improve my influence? It seems to me that it would improve Klout’s ability to boost sponsored content, but only demonstrate my ability at being at worst a parrot and at best a member of the choir. I aspire to neither.

It’s a funny universe. Yesterday on my podcast I asked Andrea Lewicki if she knew how to work a slide rule – not something that typically comes up in my daily conversation, but besides being a project artist, she went to engineering school. Now as it happens, my better half, Julie, did not hear the show because she was in the mountains visiting her dad. I didn’t end up seeing her until after I got home from improv class late last night, but when I came in there was an item in a leather sheath sitting on the counter waiting for me. I said “what’s this?” She said, “My dad thought you might like to have his old slide rule.” Too weird.