Anti-Social Media

I know meditation is good for me, but I’ve struggled to practice with any consistency. I sat for 10 minutes every day in March with a free trial of this app: The Way (great name!)

I have no intention of paying for it, but the lessons I received have been impactful and I do plan to continue daily practice with or without the app.

If you want to give it a go, here are 30 free sessions on The Way: https://the-way.app.link/gift

Airport pick-up

Our last night housesitting.

I rarely watch online videos anymore, but every so often something crosses my radar that seems worth a few minutes of my time, and today it was this ad, made by the Norwegian Consumer Council:

I watched it twice! Once with the sound off at work, and it was funny enough to watch again with Aldon when I got home (sound on).

There’s an accompanying article that’s worth a gander as well

Digital products and services keep getting worse. A new report from the Norwegian Consumer Council (Forbrukerrådet) shows how this phenomenon – known as enshittification – affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide. 

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Woke up to maybe a centimeter of snow this morning. “Oh that’s not so bad!”

20 minutes later: blizzard. Total whiteout. About 4” in under 2 hours. and then it stopped and the sun came out.

Welcome to Spring!