Please, friend, please: never allow your self-esteem or self-worth to be gauged by whether you appear on a list on some website. A website is a box of information with a cable attached to it, and it’s incapable of “liking” or “not liking” anyone. Even you. It’s just a box. You are not a box.

Spend a few minutes and dig through Merlin Mann’s FAQ’s.

There are some real gems in there on the topic of survival and thriving in the age of information overload.

Merlin for Pope.