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 …
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Diminshed Time
On a personal note, I find myself hounding the topic of digital retreating due to the incredible amount of wasted time I see in my rearview mirror. At first it can seem justified. The amount of blogs I have read (which as long as they are good credible ones). The amount of chats I have …
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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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 …
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 …
Return To Eremos, Wilderness, Stillness
“My aim here is to continue in the spirit of the work laid out by people like Comer, Newport, Sullivan, who have jump started my own path towards a return to healthy stillness and solitude.”
Return To Eremos 