Entertainment:
I had my cable TV shut off over a year ago. Why? Two reasons.
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Books:
This is one area I had to do some house cleaning on. Here was the list of books I was reading… all at the same time:
- The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore – book about memes and the study of mind viruses.
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Magazines:
On we go. I was never really a big magazine reader. Back in my Hollywood days I would read Entertainment Weekly and Premier Magazine. Now, there are only two that I actually read:
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Podcasting:
So, I just finished doing a bit of ‘spring cleaning’ in my iTunes podcast folder. I had 44 podcasts that I downloaded each week, now I have 12.
“44! How on earth did you listen to them all?!” You ask?
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Looks like I’m cutting the email leash not a moment too soon. Take a look at this stunning quote from a recent Business Week article:
Scrolling through e-mail and punching out text messages fire up the dopamine-reward system, unleashing a pleasure-inducing hit that for an estimated 6% of Internet users has become clinically addictive, says University of Michigan psychology professor David Meyer.
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