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Beyond the Noise

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Our devices filter the world. Media filters it again. Algorithms decide what matters. When do you last see life unfil...

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Designing Away Our Ability to Refuse

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Remember when phones had a green button to answer and a red one to decline? Now it just says “slide to answer.” No re...

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Being There Is a Choice

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

You’re in a meeting, coffee in hand. Your phone rings. Do you answer it? When we’re face to face with someone, they s...

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Stop Answering Everything

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Our phones buzz constantly and we feel the urge to respond. But ask yourself: Do you really need to? Unless you’re a ...

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Personality Changes

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Let me show you how to live a better life WITH techMy handwriting has gone to pot because I barely do it any more Dit...

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Two Walks, One Difference

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

A walk on sabbath is different than a walk during a week.  A walk during the week often feels like a task: a way...

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A Sacred Pause at the End of the Week

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

After a crazy week, Friday hit me like a ton of bricks. Taking a minute during the afternoon to look forward to the u...

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Why Inaction Is the Riskiest Choice

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

When it comes to our tech and social media overconsumption addiction, the facts on the ground are changing too fast f...

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What We Owe Our Attention

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

How do you characterize your ‘relationship’ with your phone? Philosophers are describing our phones as parasites! Ini...

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Productivity culture runs like a hamster wheel. It just keeps running, at the same pace, going nowhere.

Do you manage your time like a hamster wheel or do you put a training program in place and find time to rest?

There's a scene in "Mad Men" where Don Draper is asked what he thought about Hawaii, and instead of talking about beaches, he talks about becoming someone else. Not a version of himself with better tan lines and a Mai Tai. A different person. One who, for a few days, didn't miss

I recently took one of the best holidays of my life, and I never left the resort.

Turns out the destination is beside the point. What you're actually chasing is a change of pace, and if your holiday runs on the same schedule as your working week, you've just moved the treadmill

We have strategies for our careers, our finance, our help.

Pleased to announce a program to help answer an important question: “what’s your strategy for your time?”

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