Hi all, While many people may think therapists are immune to the problems of ordinary life, I will tell you we suffer from all the same maladies as the general public. And I, dear readers, had found myself fairly addicted to my phone as of late. The inability to sit without input for more than [...]
If you haven't seen it yet, the Vanity Fair article on Tinder - entitled "Tinder And The Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse", I highly recommend it. As someone who has been married for 11 years now, and with his wife for 14 years, some of the new dating and mating trends made possible by the [...]
Hi all, Sometimes I just like to pass along something great I found by another author. In this case it's a long post about Criticism and how ineffective it is as a feedback tool (if what you want is improved performance). The author is Kate Heddleston, who is a long-time developer down in San Francisco. [...]
I am four full weeks into my Facebook Fast ("Why I Did It" is posted here - "2 Weeks In" is posted here).The addictive, habitual power of checking FB on my smartphone and iPad, and whatever neurochemicals it kicks off, are nearly gone. I don't long for it or jones for it (like, say sugar, [...]
So it's been about two weeks since I started my Facebook Fast and I'm back to report on the experience.The first thing I can tell you is Facebook + Smartphone = very addictive habit.Holy moly, I did not realize how I had subtly become one of those people who pulls out his phone everytime there is more [...]
So I am about a week into my Facebook fast. I'll be writing about some of my experiences with it in a future blog post.But the thing I wanted to share quickly was a response I got from a half a dozen friends - the SAME thing - when I posted that I was going [...]
The concept of doing technology "fasts" or "breaks" has interested me for a while.I think taking time off from something - whether it's news, video games, porn, or social media - can be a good way of understanding what impact that usage is really having on you.So two days ago I entered my second ever [...]
I may be getting older, but I may also be getting wiser (not sure, depends on the day). But as I look at all the vast changes in our lives from technology, I start to think of how special and unique the therapy office is really becoming.Soon, it may be one of the only places [...]
Hey guys,I have to tell you this first. I am not Puritanical. I like sex. I love women. I like porn.But I have wondered, at age 46, what it would have been like to have unlimited Internet porn as a teenager, rather than the rag-tag underground railroad of magazines that we had back then. Would [...]
