"Technological Empathy" - [An Interim Wind Down Newsletter]
Dear Reader, Last week, I had the pleasure of chatting with David Sparks and Stephen Hackett on their Mac Power Users podcast. As always, I had a lot of fun waxing eloquently, not so eloquently, and everywhere in between on matters of technology, with a momentary ode to boardgames and music. Click the button to listen to the MPU podcast episode:
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Kourosh Dini, MD
Kourosh Dini, MD is a psychiatrist, productivity expert, author, and musician.
Dear Reader, Check out the podcast version of today's newsletter at Captivate, Apple Podcasts, or on Spotify. Kourosh If I only had a hack, a trick, something novel, new, different! That'll get me to start. And once I start, I'm good... The trouble with these approaches, is not that they don't work. It's that sometimes they do. The seeds of system's destruction are sown in the beginning of these approaches where we trick ourselves. Why Tricks and Hacks Fall Short Relying on hacks can subtly...
Dear Reader, Attention: My last email had broken links! I have fixed the link! Below is the email again. Cheers, Kourosh Many of us find ourselves embarrassed by our wandering minds. Thoughts easily scatter into daydream while our conversation partner at the party watches us drift off. I can’t tell you the number of times this has happened to me at some gathering or another. That is until I realized that my wanderings were something I could use. I could harness and engage them, and in so...
Dear Reader, Many of us find ourselves embarrassed by our wandering minds. Thoughts easily scatter into daydream while our conversation partner at the party watches us drift off. I can’t tell you the number of times this has happened to me at some gathering or another. That is until I realized that my wanderings were something I could use. I could harness and engage them, and in so doing, find deeper and better conversations. In today’s post, I talk about practicing an approach to those...