How Technology Hijacks Your Brain (And How to Fight Back)
Review of Hal Gottfried’s The Psychology of Technology This book is an easy read. Even though some concepts are technical, the author does a good job of explaining them in layman’s terms Let’s be real—you picked up your phone at least 3 times while reading that headline. I get it. I’m guilty too. But after […]
Three books recommended by John Taylor Gatto
Here are three books recommended by John Taylor Gatto. You can skip to 1:41:14 to hear his quick summary of the three books after a question about Ayn Rand and Liberterians. This is taken from a CSPAN lecture, “Examples of Educated People.” “Do I draw philisophic strength from writing? Absolutely! That’s one of the things […]
Twitter Blanket Drive: Why I No Longer Support Them
For many years I supported Twitter Blanket Drive across South Africa. While I lived in Joburg, I joined people on Twitter by encouraging people to donate blankets. Many of the people I had meet at various Tweetups over the years. The community was strong and committed. And in 2016, I hosted the first Twitter Blanket […]
A Russian Perspective on Gender Roles vs LGBT madness
In recent years we’ve seen the rise of gender as a social construct and gender roles have become blurred. Gender and sex are often used interchangeably. According to the dictionary, gender is a category into which sexually-reproducing organism are divided based on their reproductive roles in their species. Over the years terms have evolved like […]
5 Reasons Why You Should Use Firefox Web Browser
Most Internet users do not pay attention to the web browser they use. This app comes preinstalled on most devices, whehter it’s a laptop or a smartphone. The purpose of a web browser is to allow to do exactly what it’s name says, browse the Web. In this blog I want to you remind of […]