Don't Unplug: How Technology Saved My Life and Can Save Yours Too

The problem is not the mountains of data you process, nor is it a lack of filters for your information. No, our challenge is that we are using legacy software, our reptile brain, with our newest app, the neocortex. This is exactly where technology should swoop in to aid us. The problem is that the data presented to us every day is filtered by techn

There is no industry on Earth that is not being torn asunder by the conversion to digital content.

It seems as if we have gotten so sloppy in our efforts to connect with people that we have forgotten about what it is we are connecting to.

These two versions of myself along with ten different Twitter accounts and at least two different LinkedIn accounts ran my digital life from 2008 to 2012.

Social media is a portable version of you and your values. A digital doppelgänger that interacts with the internet on your behalf, even after you have logged off or left a service.

Our phones in some ways have made us superhuman. As far as feedback, who on Earth isn’t hopelessly reprogrammed by the feedback loops of our social media? So we’re different. But that’s ok, isn’t it? Let’s try to slow down the dangerous language lamenting the fact that we are not human any more. We are cyborgs, and that means learning to love and t

Becoming digitally Amish is not really an option. And there is no prescribed length of time you could take a break from your screen that will actually make life ok again. If you think that the former tech bros in Silicon Valley—all of whom are now having second thoughts about what they have created—are going to find a way to fix this, think again.

“Stop valuing your schedule and start scheduling your values.”

We don’t need a virtual reality, we have a reality. We don’t need innovation, we need compassion. We don’t need to fix the problems of the world with technology, we need to fix technology with our human spirit.