October 6, 2021
For my sins, I recently stumbled back onto Twitter. The first casualty of social media is peace of mind—but since I’m also reading about stoicism, which places tranquility as the highest good, I’ve resolved not to use social media to amplify messages of distress and outrage. And boosting these messages is something I used to […]
tags: buddhism, calm, climate, climate change, climate crisis, ethics, outrage, right speech, social, social justice, social media, stoic, stoicism, tranquility, twitter, wellbeing
September 9, 2021
I have conflicted feelings about computers. As a boy, I loved nature and playing in the garden more than anything. I thought computers were sinister, inherently bad, maybe even evil. Then, around 1990, my parents bought my brother and I an Amiga 500. At first, I was disappointed. What did I want with a computer […]
tags: addiction, balance, computer games, computers, ethics, gaming, lockdown, meditation, philosophy, sea of thieves, social media, twitter, video games, Xbox
