<div dir="ltr">My New Year's Resolution for 2017 is to live IRL. No longer will I sacrifice agency for convenience.<div><br></div><div>By the first of this year, I'd stopped using Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart (well, I've only been through those doors once that I can recall, to buy a money order), and Facebook. </div><div><br></div><div>This year I will stop using PayPal.</div><div><br></div><div>Today I read NYT's interview with Peter Thiel, which made me despise the guy even more:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(254,254,254);color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:roboto,robotodraft,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">"When I remark that President Obama had eight years without any ethical shadiness, Mr. Thiel flips it, noting: “But there’s a point where no corruption can be a bad thing. It can mean that things are too boring.”"</span></div><div><font color="#212121" face="roboto, robotodraft, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#212121" face="roboto, robotodraft, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)">Wishing things were a lot more boring,</span></font></div><div><font color="#212121" face="roboto, robotodraft, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)">Benton</span></font></div><div><font color="#212121" face="roboto, robotodraft, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)">The Bronx</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(254,254,254);color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:roboto,robotodraft,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"></span> <br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Benton C Bainbridge | <span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="tel:(646)%20338-9172" value="+16463389172" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">+1.646.338.9172</a> | </span><a href="mailto:bentoncbainbridge@bentoncbainbridge.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">bentoncbainbridge.com</a></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">LATE 2016 UPDATE <a href="http://www.bentoncbainbridge.com/fall-2016/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.bentoncbainbridge.com/late-2016</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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