I’ve been a blogger since way back. This is my second blog that I started after deciding to ‘rebrand’ myself to have a more “professional” persona online and came up with Activate Learning Solutions or @activatelearn back in 2014. (Standby, this will soon change again as I start change it from a business to a […]
Alone in My Car
I’ve been reading Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism: On Living Better with Less Technology and there was one chapter that really hit home for me on solitude. He used the term “solitude deprivation” which is a state in which you spend close to zero time alone with your own thoughts and free from input from other […]
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
This year, I’ve been slowly doing a slow declutter of our home and contents [no books, artworks, music or yarn has been thrown out so you can all breathe a sigh of relief] but also of all the digital detritus that was making me go slightly crazy. You see, I noticed my attention waning and […]
Future Fit
Recently I finished reading a book by Andrea Clarke called Future Fit: How to Stay Relevant and Competitive in the Future of Work. Although the book was not relevant for me (in the sense that I have for many years now, been building an online profile and networks to help navigate through my different projects, […]
Getting Off the Social Media Grid?
I know a lot of people in my network nowadays have stopped writing, left their blogs by the wayside, have moved to different social networks and online communities. I get that. Life gets in the way and let’s face it, social networks nowadays are not a safe place to be. You can get sucked into […]
Update on Social Media
Early this year, I did a massive clean up and decluttering of both physical and online “stuff”. It was a cathartic experience to ditch a lot of things, clean out the garage as well as streamline all documents, files, photos and videos on the cloud. It had to be done and now I can progress […]
Mass Deletions & Deactivations
It’s time for a massive rethink on how I use social media which is providing me with precious little value anymore. In this post I share how I will focus more on creation and sensemaking.
Using Social Media on the Desktop Only – Results So Far
One week ago, I deleted all social media off my phone and only been using some of the them through desktop only. This means that I’m spending less time doing mindless scrolling and wasting time on it because I’ve effectively reduced picking up the phone at odd times at the expense of doing other activities […]
A Distracted Mind
For the last few days, I’ve not accessed social media on my phone because I deleted all social media off it! After a hissy fit where I felt like shit because I was constantly picking up the bloody thing to Twitter that would feed me information that made me angry (mainly news related), I […]
Reducing Screen Time
Last night I received a notification on my phone to tell me that my screen time had reduced by 10% this week. What wonderful news! I was on leave for the last week and used much of my time catching up with various chores around the house and garden as well as long stretches of […]