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Taking my words back

Recent years haven't been kind to personal publishing online. Social media took over with its immediacy and mobile-friendly form. And, like many, I migrated to that world of short attention spans, updating my "status" with the odd link or comment while this site gathered digital dust in the background. But I've been feeling an increasing discomfort with the idea of creating content for these closed and often walled gardens…

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Posted on 28th November 2017 Details

The Substitute Phone is designed to help smartphone addicts cope in their absence

Methadone for swiping and scrolling.

Linked on 27th November 2017 Details

Collaboration Kills Creativity, According to Science

Collaboration, rather than sparking creativity, results in group-think and mediocrity.

Linked on 26th November 2017 Details

To cure affluenza, we have to be satisfied with the stuff we already own

I never looked at it that way: consumerism is the love of buying things, materialism is the love of the things themselves.

Linked on 26th November 2017 Details

Against Productivity

We need to be bored more. This is an important read.

Linked on 25th November 2017 Details

Death by consumerism

Photo taken Just off the shopping shrine that is Regent Street in London.

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Posted on 25th November 2017 Details