Yes. My thoughts exactly. Modern life requires self-moderation and self-control like never before.
Tristan Harris, a former Google design ethicist, wrote a piece titled "How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Former Insider” and discusses how technology companies, especially social media platforms, are designed to exploit human vulnerabilities for monetary gains, rather than focusing on improving human flourishing.
I think about it everyday as the owner of a small home based business where getting things done depends entirely on my ability to complete important tasks and stay on track AND as a parent to two young school age boys who are immersed in a world or entertainment and distraction and a social world that normalizes it.
Yes. My thoughts exactly. Modern life requires self-moderation and self-control like never before.
Tristan Harris, a former Google design ethicist, wrote a piece titled "How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Former Insider” and discusses how technology companies, especially social media platforms, are designed to exploit human vulnerabilities for monetary gains, rather than focusing on improving human flourishing.
I think about it everyday as the owner of a small home based business where getting things done depends entirely on my ability to complete important tasks and stay on track AND as a parent to two young school age boys who are immersed in a world or entertainment and distraction and a social world that normalizes it.
https://medium.com/thrive-global/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3
To me, this explains the current obsession with meditation, mindfulness, and stoicism. It’s necessary for getting through the day.
“Persist and resist.” -Epictetus
I frame my aim to be master of my life and time in this way:
“No man is free who is not master of himself.” -Epictetus
And
“It is the sign of the great man not to allow his time to be frittered away.” -Seneca