Image

Archive for Fear of Missing Out

Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 5)

To refresh your memory, here’s my “sum the sum” from part 4 of my summary of Hamlet’s Blackberry: Here’s a powerful Powers “bottom line”: Digital consciousness can’t tolerate three minutes of pure focus. Being able to appropriately focus attention for extended periods of time is one of the Executive Function Skills. Executive Functioning tends to […]

Read More

Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 3)

To refresh your memory, here’s my “sum the sum” from part 2 of my summary of Hamlet’s Blackberry: To quote Powers, “Depth roots us in the world, gives life substance and wholeness.” Historical figures that seem to model depth are: Ludwig van Beethoven, Michelangelo, Emily Dickinson, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr. Achieving depth seems […]

Read More

Are You Suffering From the Heartbreak of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)?

Systems thinkers are trained to look and assess for such things as unintended consequences, side effects, and even “blowback.” I consider myself to be a systems thinker, and I consider our Foundation to be a systems focused foundation. In my first career I was a structural geologist. Geology, along with its close association to evolution […]

Read More