Identity Augmentation I call this identity augmentation: how our identities are changed in different ways by the medium through which they are expressed.
philosophy Featured Being rich and powerful is a bad (modern) life goal The researchers watched the person's behavior without accounting for the choices they had. And you know who has a lot of choices? Powerful people.
philosophy Long-Distance Gardening Like the calories in a diet, every day we consume about 100,000 words with our minds. We ingest the equivalent of a book per day.
digital life Can you turn on Airplane Mode during lunch? Having our phones handy when we don't want it to distract us is like keeping a bowl of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies when we intend to eat radishes.
digital life Turning off my phone (just for a bit) To really put the phone to sleep, we have to turn it off.
philosophy Being happy is a bad (modern) life goal Emotional delusions: Emotions we feel by interacting with modern human-made inventions.
