People argue they use social media to keep in touch with family and friends. Luckily, there is something called email and the telephone. It is only in two-way mediums, where we must contend with the reality of another person, that real relationship forms and grows. Passive one-way consumption of someone’s life only creates the illusion of... See more

On his regular rants about ‘the Facebook,’ an old business professor I had in Navarra used to say, in his velvet Spanish accent, “If there’s no price, you are the price.” Entertainment’s main goal is not to entertain but to keep you so hooked, so riveted, that you can’t tear yourself away so advertisers can advertise. To create an anxiety that only... See more

After years stuck in the spin-cycle of dopamine, you have to expect the first few weeks to feel like withdrawal. Addictions are always crucifying to quit.

Most of a good life is simply refusing to do what is bad.

If you are immune to boredom, if you can get drunk staring into the flames of a fire, or lost in reverie walking by yellow-lit windows, or experience a secret pleasure from staring into space, if you can be by yourself but not lonely, simply alone, then you’ve got it.

The transformative moments in my life only came when the pain of staying the same finally became greater than the pain of changing.

Suffer until you get sick of your suffering.

The goal isn’t entertainment. The goal isn’t even distraction. The goal is addiction4.

To create an anxiety that only promises relief by purchase. It’s a system that reduces the nobility of man to a cog in the capitalist machine, a unit of utility, something to sell to.