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  • December 29, 2020

    Read a book instead

    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…

  • December 22, 2020

    On taking a digital break

    What better time than the end of the year, and 2020 at that, to take a much need break from the digital world? It all started with a conversation. Last Thursday, Mine from @unapologetically.mine and I got on Instagram Live to chat about protecting our inner peace while using social media and being online in…

  • December 15, 2020

    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.*…

  • December 8, 2020

    Is digital declutter for you?

    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

    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

    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

    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

    5 tips for reducing inbox clutter

    5 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. Since the first email sent by Tomlinson in 1971, email has ushered in an incredible new era of communication…

  • October 6, 2020

    3 practical tips to read over 20 books a year

    3 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

    The attention economy, and how and why Big Data is hijacking our mind

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

  • September 11, 2020

    Demons hate fresh air

    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.

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