{"id":531,"date":"2003-04-10T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2003-04-10T10:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/04\/10\/fall_of_the_media_lab.html"},"modified":"2003-04-10T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2003-04-10T10:31:11","slug":"fall_of_the_media_lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/04\/10\/fall_of_the_media_lab.html","title":{"rendered":"fall of the media lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, if you know me, you probably know that i was pretty much miserable at the Media Lab, for a *lot* of reasons.  In fact, my experience in Boston made me a bitter and angry person and brought out some of the worst characteristics in my personality.  I would love to just erase those two years from my history, but i&#8217;m still struggling with the consequences from the mistakes and anger induced.<\/p>\n<p>While i made my own mistakes there, i have to say that it makes me <grin> with glee when many of my woes are validated.  I hate to see others in misery, but i do love to remember that i wasn&#8217;t the only one who was disturbed by the culture there.  Even better, i love when the media reminds me that that place was pretty messed up.<\/p>\n<p>Wired: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/11.05\/mitlab.html\">The Lab That Fell To Earth<\/a><br \/>\nBoston Globe: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/097\/business\/Reinventing_the_Media_Lab+.shtml\">Reinventing the Media Lab<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These reminders let me take a deep breath of San Franciscan air and remember why the world is just so much better with sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, if you know me, you probably know that i was pretty much miserable at the Media Lab, for a *lot* of reasons. In fact, my experience in Boston made me a bitter and angry person and brought out some of the worst characteristics in my personality. I would love to just erase those two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}