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Going analog in a digital world
Going analog doesn’t need to be a drastic change. It is a simpler approach to unplugging to enjoy the benefits of the offline world.
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Addiction by design: How technology keeps us hooked
In the new economy, the most valuable asset we can accumulate is not money, nor wealth, or even knowledge; it is the ability to control our own attention.
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The attention merchants: The harvesters of human attention
Human attention is a scarce commodity and its value is derived from how much time we spend focused on a particular thing.
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A (very) short introduction to the attention economy
In the new economy, the most valuable asset we can accumulate is not money, nor wealth, and not even knowledge, but it is the ability to control our own attention.
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Read a book instead
Every year, millions of people make New Year’s resolutions hoping to spark positive change in their lives. Reading is one of the most popular resolutions for many people, including myself. And, for very good reasons. Reading is an excellent hobby with many benefits. It puts our brain to work. It involves several brain functions, including […]
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Radical digital declutter
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.* […]
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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.
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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