Knowing something about someone online is just like reading a book about them. But hearing their inflection in their tone, smelling the room you are both in, glancing out the window behind them and seeing the blazing setting sun, these items create a full experience attached to the knowledge you are gaining about them.
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Pandemic Connection
It’s seemingly counter-productive to begin the process of retreating away from social media connectivity during a global pandemic. 100 years ago this wasn’t even a choice during the Spanish Flu, so there isn’t much to go off in terms of examples. I can’t find someone’s notes back then on how they avoided TikTok so they …
Strength In Solitude Part 4: Getting Rid Of Connection For Communication; And The Benefits Of Solitude
For the fourth installment in this series on solitude (see parts 1, 2 and 3), I dive further into Cal Newport’s chapter on solitude in his book Digital Minimalism, and highlight more of solitude’s benefits. Unfortunately, in this era of constant (not just instant) connection, we are depriving ourselves of an incredibly rich value we …
Strength In Solitude Part 2: This Anxious Generation
An entire generation has “eliminated time alone with their thoughts from their lives,” and subsequently, it is this young generation who is experiencing tremendous spikes in anxiety and mental health deterioration. The quoted line above is found on page 108 from the book Digital Minimalism by computer professor Cal Newport. The generation in question is …
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Relational Appreciation
We were created with pursuit on our hearts after something, and, to have the appreciation grow in the midst of such pursuit.
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