What? It is the attention economy. An economy a truly advanced species should be well beyond, but: “don’t hate the player, hate the game.” Except, we created the game. Ergo, don’t hate the player, hate society? But, isn’t that what have already done as teenagers? Ergo, shouldn’t at least the grown ups exist in a […]
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Of course, without going into personal details too much, I was surprised how well dream interpretation applied to this situation. There are a lot more details , and it captured a compelling narrative: The message from my existential vacation through a tropical depression was that, I was now entering a cleansed state, filled with the
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“Reality” has always been a fascinating concept to me. It is 99.9999% nothing. And we are starting to realize that nothing, might indeed be something. Something we lack the ability to detect. If we think of the cells of our bodies – trillions of them, coexisting in a biochemical mesh so complex we have yet
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Now, looking back, I can see this vacation had layers of life lessons built into it. This vacation was 7 days, of which, only 2 actually consisted of us vacationing. And yet there was so much that happened internally, on a contemplative level, as these events unfolded. A couple examples: If Debby and this vacation
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After a restless second night we decided it was time pack up our mobile hotel and move it somewhere more peaceful. We ended up heading inland and north. . . to Yogi’s Jellystone Park-Resort. Was it cliche? Yes. Was it. . . campy? Indeed, it was. However, all the warnings dropped off our phones, and
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This all started out as a plan to take the family down to Myrtle Beach for some time at the beach. It was simple: load up an RV, drive for a day, and tap into power of the sandy, ocean beach to recharge the batteries of our soul, while glamping, grilling and ditching electronics for
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The Question I am responding to a post from Adrian Thompkins reposted by Dorian Cunion on LinkedIn. Both are asking their audience to choose Fear or Faith: A Little Over-Simplified It is an insightful quote, but it is also kinda like asking someone to choose between being rich and being poor. The road to one
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Keeping a personal journal is one of those things I am good at and then forget to do for years at a time. But still, it is a practice I have maintained off and on since I was at least in 4th or 5th grade. Over the years, it was just organic, but more recently
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Calendly allegedly enables wiretapping I was thinking about signing up with Calendly, so people could book appointments with me. Bad idea. I am a privacy advocate, and I can’t sign up with a firm that actively engages in propagating malware to spy on their customers. But, don’t believe me, here is the class action filed
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TLDR; The Fix This post comes in two parts – the fix, and the drama. Figure, if you are here for the fix, let’s disclose that up front (unlike how the rest of the internet works). So here it is: The Drama Alright, like most people, I pour my life into a cadre of applications
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