Media
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An online life
We could pretend to be somebody. Act online as someone we want to become, not necessarily who we are at the moment. So, we curate whatever we put out on our social media feeds, making sure to create the image we want to portray. But online isn’t real life. It may seep through our realities Read more
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Nighttime habits (a “Scrolling is the New Smoking” riff off)
Today’s Big Social eerily resembles yesterday’s Big Tobacco. Scrolling is the new smoking. Scrolling Is The New Smoking, an article from forbes.com At some point, a nagging voice inside you must have whispered something in your gut, like, “Stop. This is not how you should be spending your time.“ But because the bright screens are Read more
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10 ways our minds are different to our machines
This is a list from Future Minds: How the Digital Age Is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters, and What We Can Do About It by Richard Watson. If you want to read the book but don’t have the time, I already did it for you. Check out my book notes here. While reading through Read more
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Hello, smartphone!
For the past six months, I have shared how a dumbphone changed my lifestyle and how I relate with people in gatherings. And snapping out of the tool, becoming the user and not being used, I began to see things that only felt like a knot in my guts before. Something is wrong with how Read more
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Goal-setting and our excuses to be lazy
Starting the year at work while working from home feels different than when you physically return to the office, seeing your colleagues fresh from the holiday thrills. Asking them how their holidays went clearly distinguishes the holiday break from the back-to-work season. And so, implementing the new year’s goals feels promising while the calendar is Read more
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Watching comedy from the recommendations list
It’s fun because the algorithm seems to know your taste. Sure, it learns as you go. But at the same time, as it gets better, the more you’re sucked into a never-ending recommendations list. And dopamine hits are so attractive that you just want to laugh and laugh after one comical skit, then another, letting Read more
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Information war
It’s not just about entertainment out there on the internet. There’s also a battlefield. I learned more about it when I read Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers and wrote my thoughts about it here (on my previous website). And in light of spreading fake news Read more
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