How to Save Your Attention From the Social Media Vampire

This is a very odd post for me to write. On one hand as an entrepreneur and marketer, advertising on Facebook is potentially one of the most lucrative and targeted methods of getting your message in front of the people who could most benefit from your product, and by extension are most likely to buy …

Having Spent 10 Days in Silence…It’s Overrated, IMO

This took longer to do than I thought. It didn’t really, but the procrastination is strong in this one. I definitely didn’t have a legitimate reason for putting it off, that’s for sure. But I have been lamenting the lack of creative outlets in my life, and my creative brain was working at 110% coming …

What Drives a Man to Spend 10 Days in Silence

There’s a quote I’ve heard repeated many times, that perfectly sums up my reasons for choosing to spend 10 days sitting in silence with a bunch of monks in Thailand. It’s by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal, who wrote “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Like …