Repost from September 2013
Just a few days ago I realized I was bored with the internet
and my mobile devices. Together they
have contributed to my font of trivial knowledge. But it has been a very long time since I
delved deeply enough into a topic to fully understand it, or to contribute to
it with original ideas. And perhaps most
important, I have been losing my sense of nuance. All discourse seems to fall on one side or
the other. Intellectually I have been
anything but mindful. In fact, the
constant barrage of information, updates, and check-ins, and the 24-hour
availability of me and everyone I know have turned me into a cognitive fight or
flight machine.
