Mindful Technologist Gifts

"I'm doing better. The voices in my head can now access my email."

"O.K., God – please delete everything I said today."

At the end of each day, Gary had approximately 7 minutes of free time – which left him feeling very vulnerable.

"Technology isn't making me smarter. It's allowing me to be dumb, faster."

"Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink in the wild air." — Ralph Waldo Emerson "Catch tennis balls in the mouth." — Me

"I have a recurring nightmare that I've taken a test, and the professor won't give me an 'A'."

"I change my mantra every two months so no one can hack my soul."

I want a calendar where every day says here and now

"Slowly begin to reawaken the body with thoughts of unread E-mails, piles of dirty laundry, and the kids you have to pick up from school."

Go ahead and dissect me

'I was trying to extinguish my ego, and I got an Out of Memory Error.'

'I don't know why Doc, but my life is really upside down...'

The power of the brain

"Don’t think of that tennis ball as lost. Think of it as finally free."

2 + 2 = 4. 2 x 2 = 4. Oh, I get it! It's a Zen thing!

'I'm beginning to think outside the box again - get my GP quickly!'

"You are responsible for editing your thoughts. I'm just here to audit them."

Binary Meditation.

First O.M.G. church.

'Your problems are caused by all-or- nothing thinking. It's either that, or you don't have any problems.'

'I always answer their questions with a question - it drives them nuts!'

'Guide us, oh Webmaster.'

"I worry that some people find me boring"

Holy phone

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"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates. For dogs maybe, but not for cats.

"People can bridge the great distance between the Earth and the Moon..."

"Hmmm?!"

"And the weird shall inherit the Earth, for their ways are difficult for A.I. algorithms to figure out."

'I don't know how you stand listening to people's problems all of the time, Doctor Barnes.'

Internal Prisons

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with worrying that you forget something."

"The alarm will alert us when our meditative, present-moment-restoring tech break has ended."

'You're insecure because your data is unsecured.'

'Too expensive, too long, sounds boring, the jacket is lousy...'