While reading Sherry Turkle’s book “Reclaiming Conversation,” there is a part on solitude. In the beginning, it points to the comments of comedian Louis CK on why he doesn’t let his kids have cell phones. More than what it does to their...
I embraced Digital Minimalism for some time now, and I began feeling strange around people in a Mall. I felt alien because everyone is paying attention to their phone and I noticed. People around me were alienated most of the time. I saw children around their...
Awareness is what best protects you against having your behavior being hacked. This is the lesson I took from the Netflix documentary on the Cambridge Analytica case. It challenges democracy at its roots. How can you give power to the people if the behavior of a few...
The time and attention we spend with our devices are at the core of our digital lives. When we eat too much we get fat and sick. Thus, if we eat too much connectivity, we get distracted and numb. If this happened in a generation, what have we forgot that, eventually,...
One of the most important lessons I learned while doing my Ph.D. was to take good care of preparing anything from an experiment to a presentation. When technologies emerged like the iPhone and iPad, I was fascinated and embraced the workflow they provided. But was I...