Resources.
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Social Media & Mental Health
Social media is an evolutionary TRAP!
Trap music is great, doom scrolling sucks.
Learn more about how to clean up your digital habits and get your brain on straight.
Polarization
We are social primates. In our evolutionary history, belonging to a tribe meant the difference between access to food and sex, or dying as a starving virgin.
Comment threads, re-tweets, and digital tribes prey on this primal need for social belonging, fueling out-group animosity, and leaving us full of virtual ego-validation without the psychological benefits of physical connection.
Addictive Design & Attention Economy
The attention economy is trying to screw us over.
It’s real bad.
It’s designed to addict us. You know, dopamine and slot machines and stuff.
Evolution of Empathy & Prosocial Behavior
The thing is… I love you.
Ethical Design of Social Systems
What are we extracting? Love? Sex? Money? Human connection and emotion?
“Move Fast and Break Things.” -Facebook
Maybe if what you’re breaking is the fabric of society, you should slow dooooowwwwwn.
Nervous System Regulation
*Ding*
Panic. You should definitely panic.
Look at the news. It’s so bad. Everything is so bad.
Have you ever tried deep breathing? With your eyes closed?
Try it. You’ll like it.
Resources Coming Soon
Meditation
What a beautifully written buzz word… ~mindfulness~.
Maybe mindfulness is over-hyped.
I, too, used to think meditation was a thing for pretentious people in white linen shirts to brag about.
Then I tried it…
Now I teach it.