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How Tech Is Ruining Our Quality of Life—and What We Can Do About It

Tech is exploiting our attention and disconnecting us from others, but it could also be the answer to humanity’s ills

Aug 12, 2019

How Tech Is Ruining Our Quality of Life—and What We Can Do About It

Aug 12, 2019

Jay Vidyarthi

Teaching Attention Activism at the Center of Attention

What it felt like trying to teach meditation — a practice all about being less self-conscious — with cameras pointed at my face.

Nov 17, 2021

Teaching Attention Activism at the Center of Attention

Nov 17, 2021

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Be Yourself

The Mirror I Find in Music

How a pursuit that seemed to go nowhere ended up going deeper than I ever expected.

Mar 12, 2020

The Mirror I Find in Music

Mar 12, 2020

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Daily Haloha

7 Ways We’d Respond If The Internet Went Away Forever

A playful social media experiment ended up perfectly capturing our love-hate relationship with technology.

Sep 9, 2019

7 Ways We’d Respond If The Internet Went Away Forever

Sep 9, 2019

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Mindfulness and Meditation

Acceptance is not surrender, it’s the first step to clarity.

Life is full of challenges. Big ones like injustice, small ones like being late for a meeting, and even…

May 22, 2019

Acceptance is not surrender, it’s the first step to clarity.

May 22, 2019

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Why Isn’t Tristan Harris Talking About Mindfulness?

This week, Tristan Harris and the Center for Humane Technology unveiled a new mission: “to reverse human downgrading by inspiring a new…

Apr 30, 2019

Why Isn’t Tristan Harris Talking About Mindfulness?

Apr 30, 2019

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A love letter to you, lonely creator:

To those of you who create, remember that your craft is old.

Apr 26, 2019

Apr 26, 2019

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On Advertising

Tech & Advertising Are Not Evil

Sweeping generalizations are misguiding public sentiment

Apr 16, 2019

Tech & Advertising Are Not Evil

Apr 16, 2019

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Mindfulness and Meditation

Ensō: see through the stories which hold you back.

8 months ago, when we decided to leave Toronto for a monastery, it felt like a renunciation of sorts. We were trying to slow down. By…

Nov 6, 2018

Ensō: see through the stories which hold you back.

Nov 6, 2018

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Mindfulness and Meditation

You can’t strangle a flower from a seed.

I’m writing this from the east coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. It’s been 4 months since we abandoned our lives and jobs in Toronto and…

Jul 10, 2018

You can’t strangle a flower from a seed.

Jul 10, 2018

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Jay Vidyarthi

“Good” design as in useful, enjoyable, and ethical. Mindfulness as a tool to reclaim freedom of choice. — Stay in touch at www.attentionactivist.com

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