A little more on the caring for your introvert article. Jason Kottke has some good comments. His comments remind me of this quote:
Social commentators sometimes worry that the Web is making us more isolated. In the picture these pundits paint, tortured introverts peck out desperate messages in dark, lonlely chat rooms. We take a different view. In ordinary life, extraordinary people often feel terribly isolated because no one around them can understand them other that superficially. The Net and the Web offer real hope and true companionship for those willing to express themselves and seek out like-minded souls. This, we think, is a good thing.
That quote appears in Jeffrey Zeldman's Taking Your Talent to the Web on p. 34. (Note that I'm not under the pretense that I'm 'extraordinary'.) That article that I linked previously has given me some courage to tell people that I need days off from people to recharge. We'll see how it goes tonight, since I'm invited over to a friend's to watch the hockey game, when all I want to do is stay home and watch The Wedding Singer.
