The first is that authenticity turns out to be just another form of hyper-competitive status seeking, exacerbating many of the very problems it was designed to solve.

So one nice surprise is that I recently found out I’m now among the elite of all Top Amazon Reviewers–at the time I looked I was #964 out of 10,000 Amazon Top Reviewers and out of probably hundreds of thousands of Amazon Reviewers in general.

A few months ago I reviewed a new book on R, called Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation Using R, Second Edition, by Owen Jones, Robert Maillardet, and Andrew Robinson.

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Today, there have never been more opportunities for the independent artist–writer, musician, video creator–to perform their craft and get paid for their efforts by their fans.