Expert tips for cultivating lasting fulfillment
An interview from Evernote’s Taking Note blog on happiness, screentime, and balance in our lives. Some ideas of interest: First, we need to stop thinking about happiness as a single monolithic concept. There are different kinds of happiness — and some are more fulfilling and long-term than others: Short-term happiness: Psychologists refer to this as “hedonic” happiness, derived from the…
Technology has spawned new corporate giants. Their control of society’s digital infrastructure threatens our democracy. What should we do about it?
A post about the challenges of gigantic corporate control over the digital infrastructure of society. More on the problem: The problem, however, is not bigness per se. Even for Brandeisians, the central concern was power: the ability to arbitrarily influence the decisions and opportunities available to others. Such unchecked power represented a threat to liberty. Therefore,…
It’s time to stop using technology and the internet as though you were shopping at a supermarket.
It’s time to stop using technology and the internet as though you were shopping at a supermarket. In a grocery store, you can reasonably assume that the food labels are accurate and the products safe to eat, because the food industry is heavily regulated. The handling of personal digital information, in contrast, is loosely regulated. There…