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December 15, 2020

How I radically decluttered my email and online accounts to minimize digital overwhelm

Taking my own advice, I paid attention to what part of my digital life was causing me the most stress. Email was the number one offender. On a recent vacation, I experimented with life without email. For a week, I didn’t check my email at all. It was simply amazing, glorious, freeing, delightful, exceptional… *Sigh.* […]

December 8, 2020

Is digital declutter for you?

Digital declutter is a very personal journey. Three ideas to determine if digital declutter is for you; pay attention, identify top offenders, and visualize it.

December 1, 2020

A radical digital declutter journey

I’m one person, with one brain. There is so much information I can realistically consume before I die of information-exhaustion. Time for digital declutter.

November 11, 2020

Be informed, stay sane: How to stay informed while avoiding media hysteria

What’s hoarding toilet papers got to do a fatal flu virus outbreak? Good ol’ media. Imagine this. The year is 2020. A flu virus, the deadliest in history, by the name of coronavirus has infected and wiped out 99.9 percent of the world’s population. At the same time, aliens have decided to pay our planet […]

November 5, 2020

Extreme world views often only exist online, and what to actually think of Donald Trump

In today’s attention economy, outrage, extremism, and sensational news generates the most amount of clicks.

October 28, 2020

Five tips for reducing inbox clutter

What makes email addictive, tips for reducing inbox clutter, and the importance of setting boundaries when it comes to our digital space.

October 28, 2020

Taming the beast: Five tips for reducing inbox clutter

Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by an overflowing, cluttered, anxiety-inducing inbox. ✋ Email, an abbreviation of “electronic mail,” was invented in the early 1970s by Ray Tomlinson as a personal side project. Tomlinson later said he ” had no notion whatsoever of what the ultimate impact would be.”[1] Since the […]

October 6, 2020

Three practical tips to read over 20 books a year

Three practical tips to make reading an immensely enjoyable leisure activity— quit reading books you don’t like, cut out distractions, and remove friction.

September 22, 2020

On the Attention Economy: How and Why Big Data is Hijacking Your Mind

In 1997, Michael H. Goldhaber penned in Wired magazine, “the currency of the New Economy won’t be money, but attention – A radical theory of value” [1]. The article was titled Attention Shoppers! Almost exactly a decade after Goldhaber’s “radical theory” on the attention economy, the first iPhone would enter the market, giving tech companies […]

September 11, 2020

Demons hate fresh air

No matter what time you get out of bed, go for a walk and then work, because the demons hate it when you get out of bed, demons hate fresh air.