Win back your attention by turning your screen gray 📱⬜👀
The variety of colors on our smartphone screens pop like candy. As advertiser Bruce Barton wrote in his 1925 book In The Man Nobody Knows,...
Social media companies as old storefronts
If Facebook’s recent newsfeed changes are any sign, social media is in decay. It’s gone from connecting people to Buzzfeed’s linkbait to a nest of...
Your vocation chooses you
We all start out with a dream, a goal of someone or something we want to emulate. We keep that dream close, putting up bedroom posters...
Are we living in a computer simulation?
Perhaps what we see isn’t what we get. Instead, life is just computer code and humans are information. So does a simulated life mean that...
The London Milkman
Photographer Fred Morley staged the famous photo of a milkman walking through the destruction of London after the German blitz during the Second World War....
Signalling anonymity
Your face and clothing signal your identity. Your DNA is one thing, your outer design another; fashion is the only element you can control. A...
Fire Opal
Fire Opal is a variety of opal that has a bright yellow, bright orange or bright red background color. The stones in the first photo...
Pythagoras: ‘Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.’
“Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.” Pythagoras...
The Population Bomb
In 1968, Doctor Paul Ehrlich warned the world of its excessive population with his book entitled The Population Bomb (Amazon). “The battle to feed all of...
We shape Earth. It shapes us.
We shape the Earth, and it shapes us. For all the pieces interact, transforming into a cohesive thought. The trees grow in cities, the oceans meet...
Processing “reality” through the camera lens 📷
We must look at our surroundings with a keen eye otherwise every day just becomes transactional in nature. Writes Susan Sontag in On Photography: “Ultimately,...
Why write by hand ✍
“Ah, what technology has brought us! First the typewriter, then the word processor, next the computer, now voice-recognition computers, and laptops that weigh less than...