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The unknowable possibility of words
Every now and again there’s a conversation that’s so enlightening and moving that it sort of sends your mind reeling. Yesterday, I had one such exchange with a colleague over coffee who I first met...
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A New Agreement
Yours truly. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the agreement you make when you’re born white—and especially a white man. You arrive in a system customized for you by people like you and nobody...
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Hack the algorithms. They favor outrage.
The pandemic. The social injustice. Corrupt systems. Wildfires. The elections. It seems there is no escape from the maddening turmoil and the inanity of human folly refusing reason. “Why won’t you do...
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Is this thing on? Ten years of The Off Switch
September of 2010, I had hit a wall. Smart phones, email, and social media were taking over my psyche and I could see no end in sight. So, I pulled the plug. The Off Switch blog here, was a sort of...
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From a safe distance
It’s pretty amazing how this pandemic has awakened us to the way things are. Almost as if a giant chasm opened up in the earth, a line was drawn down the middle of our society: on one side people,...
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Getting a signal
A month ago, I went primitive camping in the Davis Mountains by myself. It had been around ten years since I’d been backpacking (although I “car camp” around once a year) and more than twenty since I’d...
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Remix what you’ve got
Like most of you sitting at home for work, personal life, etc., I find myself re-examining a lot about how my house functions (or doesn’t). While I admit I have been tempted to start ordering things...
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Slacktivism (and White Fragility) Don’t Matter
If you are alive and conscious in 2020 on earth, you are being forced to look at the countless ways in which systemic racism and police brutality suppress Black lives in many and mortal ways. As with...
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Our default settings
I often find myself asking “how did we get here as a society?” and “why can’t people understand basic, shared facts about reality?!” Human behavior has always been a head-scratcher, I suppose, but in...
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Why do we find it so hard to do the easy thing?
It is the oldest, simplest, and I guess the most challenging thing in the human experience. Me want thing. Not enough for all. Me take. You suffer. Through the eons and across each of our lives, we are...
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More or less free (and distracted)?
A month ago, the company I co-founded was acquired by a much larger, stalwart PR firm I greatly admire. The transition has meant fewer stresses, more support, and more robust projects as part of a team...
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Time for an Update
Seven years ago this fall, I made the decision to pare down my electronics, notifications, and the role of technology in my life—to reclaim the free moments that had been consumed by buzzing and idle...
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Addicted
Just about four months ago, I got some news that knocked me over. We learned that a brother—who had been increasingly distant and irresponsible and with whom I hadn’t been close since we were kids—was...
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Which came first: the decline of decency… or the internet to show us?
Last week, nearly the same big-big-picture question was posed at two different times by two really different people: my mother and my good friend Scott. Going through it twice got me thinking about it...
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Technology is driving us crazy
I’ve got a nagging suspicion that how we behave behind the wheel is a pretty good indication of how we act otherwise. Sealed away from other people—excluding stink-eye—we are quasi anonymous and tend...
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Tweeting from Glass Houses
There’s something that seems to be happening more and more—and it’s pissing me off. Broadly speaking, they call it “cyber bullying” but more specifically, this is somewhat of a local phenomenon....
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A black and white world…
Two months ago today, Apple killed the iPod. You probably didn’t read much about it unless you follow tech blogs. They are still selling a few other models of the revered music player, but the “iPod...
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Subjective Ethics
Do what is right. Seems simple enough when I’m contemplating this question to myself. But as I’ve moved through life, it seems the definition of ‘right’ has become increasingly subjective. It’s both...
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Four More Years! (and a contemplation on the Apple Watch)
September marks 4 years of The Off Switch and 4 years of my quest to curb the role of technology in my daily life. A lot has happened in that time—personally, with technology, and in public...
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Selfie-Serving
Going along to get along. This is something I have a problem with. I’ve got a lot of personal rules and standards that I stubbornly refuse to yield on. To me, it’s sticking to my own sense of propriety...
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