There was a moment of time recently where there was nothing to do for 5 minutes. Of course I reached for my phone. But this time, it was to read one of the good blogs I use to read from but had abandoned for social media scrolling. The corrective behavior paid off immediately. When I …
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Building The Plane While Flying It (And Performing Surgery Mid Flight)
If I hear this phrase uttered one more time while it is accepted as a societal norm and fact of life everyone just has to deal with…. I digress. But the spirit of this title is what I present in this brief post. The better analogy might be performing surgery on yourself. The purpose of …
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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 …
The Product Feature Is Cancerous: 24/7 Outrage For Ratings
After shouting at the cable news segment you just watched on your favorite network leaning favorably to your side of the political spectrum, you reach for your blood pressure medicine. “If not for the 24/7 demonstration of actions the ‘other’ side is up to, how else will people learn of all the evils of the …
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Marketing Tools With Low Subscription Cost
Your health and wellness YouTube channel just blew up with tons of new subscribers?! And then a check comes from YouTube! What have you stumbled upon?! I’ll get back to that scenario, but first a dive into what’s happening behind the scenes, and the dynamics of a free to near-free cost structure of the internet …
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Product Feature
We keep going back to this trough of slop. This thing which stirs our emotions and whips us into a frenzy. A place filled with darkness and hate and anxiety. Leaving us zapped, void of hope and utterly confused how to proceed next. The trough is our online communities and the slop are the feeds. …
The Problem
We can’t get back into the wilderness, the eremos in Greek, a place of solitude and stillness, because our attentions are being held captive by incredibly powerful forces on the web. When I started researching what I noticed as a severe problem I experienced, an inability to focus inside the digital realm, I found the …
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