Reading Time: 3 minutesA Summer That Doesn’t Need to Sparkle Recently, I read an article on Sarah Winters’ blog titled, Maybe This Summer Isn’t Meant to be Magical. Winters discusses the cultural pressure she feels every year to have a “magical, extraordinary summer.” As an illustration of cultural pressure, she describes how many magazines feature articles such as …
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat Are You Feeding Your Mind? In a recent Farnham Street Newsletter, Shane Parrish wrote, “Your body reflects what you eat. Your mind reflects what you consume.” October 20, 2024, No. 598. Mental junk food is low-value, highly addictive information or digital content that stimulates but doesn’t nourish the mind, similar to how processed snack …
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve decided to limit my use of social media to as little as possible. Social Media: A False Reality One of the reasons I avoid social media is that it is not real life. Social media is a carefully curated, artificial world where we present the version of ourselves we want others to see. It’s …
Reading Time: 2 minutesSocial Media Is Designed to Waste Our Time Most people interested in tech are aware that social media platforms are specifically engineered to manipulate human weaknesses to make people addicted to their platforms. The goal is to suck you in and keep you in as long as possible so that the platform receives advertising revenue. …
Reading Time: 3 minutesElon Musk and the Twitter meltdown have taught us a needed lesson. That lesson is that it’s extremely unwise to build our presence on a social media platform. It Was Always a Bad Idea In a recent blog post, Joe Moyer highlights a post by Brent Simmons, titled “After Twitter.” In his post, Simmons argues …