April 2020

You know, I actually recorded a video where I said “I am no longer going to talk about the quarantine situation. There’s nothing more to say, and this is the new normal, so I’m just gonna go back to talking about the things that apply in any situation. No more about this particular thing that’s […]

When all this was getting started, I talked about the idea of there being an anxiety wave spreading around the world, a wave of fear, unsettled discomfort, this kind of feeling of uneasiness that you can just see spreading to every corner of the world. And after these several weeks having passed of settling into

There’s one option that it seems like we always have when times become difficult, times change, feels like things are unravelling, we’re heading into a difficult time. And, you know, you can maybe think that reasonably we can probably expect that most likely this will not be the total end of the world. Probably not.

One of the changes in this new situation is simply that things are now unknown. We’re living, maybe, most of us, in an environment that was relatively predictable. Of course, we never really know what’s going to happen, but there are certain parameters that we expect things to happen within. We have an idea of

Well, it wasn’t too long after recording my previous videos about the world of electronic communication and how we are living inside this electronic world that there was a day with some heavy winds, and the power went out for a couple of hours at night all the way down my street. And it’s quite

So I’m thinking about how this world of digital electronic communication really came to take over the world and take over the way that we experience life, the way we experience the world. So much is through an electronic screen. And the last video, I looked at the beginnings of it, telegraph, telephone, television, and

It seems like the place that we find ourselves now is only the latest step in a long trend, long history, of becoming increasingly electronic, increasingly digital in our lives. Something that started as a technology around the edges of life, simply added on to the way we were, solving particular problems, providing particular opportunities

Well, we’re moving into the fifth week of lockdown here, and really this weekend it started to hit me just how boring it is to not be able to have human contact. And really this seems to be- there’s something happening in this situation that’s like an acceleration of what’s been happening already. As we

So clearly time is one of those tricky things that you can never really quite get a hold on it. You can never really hold the current time, because it’s always passing through, maybe just like water flowing down a river. It’s a common metaphor to use for the passing of time, because you simply

Last video, I talked about this decision, this division, of everything that’s going on into things we can control and things we cannot control. Just like the ancient Stoics were teaching 2000 years ago, it seems to be one of the most vital, central things that we can do to have a good mindset on