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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

6 min readAug 12, 2019

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

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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.

5 min readNov 17, 2021

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Teaching Attention Activism at the Center of Attention

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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.

7 min readMar 12, 2020

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The Mirror I Find in Music

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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.

7 min readSep 9, 2019

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

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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…

3 min readMay 22, 2019

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

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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…

3 min readApr 30, 2019

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Why Isn’t Tristan Harris Talking About Mindfulness?

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A love letter to you, lonely creator:

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

2 min readApr 26, 2019

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On Advertising

Tech & Advertising Are Not Evil

Sweeping generalizations are misguiding public sentiment

6 min readApr 16, 2019

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Tech & Advertising Are Not Evil

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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…

7 min readNov 6, 2018

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Ensō: see through the stories which hold you back.

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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…

8 min readJul 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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