Loneliness and the Attention Economy I am struck by some overlaps between the “attention economy” and loneliness. In the New York Times Opinion piece “I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age,” Charlie Warzel interviews Michael Goldhaber, describing him as “the...
Being Alone “I have discovered that all man’s unhappiness derives from only one source – not being able to sit quietly in a room.”~ Blaise Pascal, Pensées M any of us already felt lonely before the social isolation required by the coronavirus pandemic and...
$300 billion. That is the cost to American employers for employee healthcare and employee absence related to workplace stress. It’s a big number. It also gives a dismaying sense of the physical, psychological and emotional trauma being experienced by millions of...
