Heads Up 7up

Unless you want to volunteer to yell to a bus of people to pick their heads up, we have to start with ourselves.

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, Counter Culture, The FactsMaya CarmosinoJune 9, 2015heads up 7 up, people looking at their phones, folk rebellion, look up, Victoria Nachman, Unplugging, Digital detox, screentime, iphoneComment

Generation Screenface

Our children have grown up as a generation that is more accustomed to playing on screens than racing toothpick boats down gutters when it rains.

Tech Effects, The FactsJess DavisMay 28, 2015nature for kids, nature deficit disorder, children and tech, screens, folk rebellion, Unplugging, addiction, Tech EffectsComment

In Favor of Drinking Coffee Instead of Instagramming It

There’s something about coffee shared with friends, sipping out of a real mug and having life-giving conversations.

Mindfulness, Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, Counter CultureJess DavisMay 12, 2015instagram, coffee, connection, documenting life, instagramming coffeeComment

The Power of Accountabilibuddies

If the best way to make friends is to be one, let’s be brave and ask our friends to put. the. phones. down.

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, Counter Culture, The FactsJess DavisApril 28, 2015unplugging, folk rebellion, look up, Tech Effects, tech addictionComment

Fuck eBooks

I like my books to live, to be crumpled and rumpled and drawn on and eaten over.

Unplugging Manual, Tech Effects, Counter Culture, The FactsJess DavisApril 24, 2015ebooks, kindles, folk rebellion, Janne Robinson Comment

Self Care Doesn't Give a Fuck About Your To-Do List

I wish our yoga mats had the ability to call us on our shit.

Mindfulness, Unplugging Manual, Counter Culture, The FactsJess DavisApril 15, 2015self care, mountains, massage, slow down, mindful living, self-care, janne robinson, elephant journalComment

Tech Addiction vs. Drug Addiction

Is tech addiction the only addiction out there without an upside?

Tech Effects, The FactsJess DavisApril 13, 2015tech addiction, tech addict, screen sense, screen, unplugged, addiction, digital addictionComment

Don't Lie. You didn't really LOL.

LOL is the tech version of polite noise. Did you really mean IDGAF?

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, The FactsJess DavisMarch 27, 2015instagram, Technology, Digital detox, digital divide, digital addiction, polite, irlComment

Why You Should Wake Up and Smell the Roses...Literally.

Yes, there are other things out there other than food, cat videos & sex that can add some pep to your step.

Mindfulness, Counter Culture, The FactsJess DavisMarch 25, 2015flowers, happiness, mindful, be present, sunshine, wake up and smell the rosesComment

Resurrecting Family Dinners (Sans Cellphones)

It is not strange for me to have coffee with a co-worker and the number of cellphones, laptops and iPads to out number the humans at the table.

Unplugging Manual, Mindfulness, Counter Culture, The FactsJanne RobinsonMarch 23, 2015meals, eating, family dinners, family dinner, unplug, be present, new years resolutionsComment

Drawing It Into Existence

What do you wish to draw into existence today?

Mindfulness, Unplugging Manual, Counter CultureJess DavisMarch 16, 2015vision board, moon board, intentions, mindful, pinterest, Janne Robinson, affirmations, pema chodronComment

I Went To a Meditation Class and This is What Happened

You won't turn into a rainbow farting unicorn after your first class. We promise.

Mindfulness, Unplugging Manual, Counter CultureJess DavisMarch 10, 2015Vajradhara Meditation Center, brooklym, mindful, mindfulness, mediation, meditate, first time meditation Comment

I'm Mad As Hell & Why You Should Be Too

Imagine if Steve Jobs created the iPad with a warning label on the packaging similar to cigarettes or diving into 3 feet of water.

Tech Effects, The FactsJess DavisMarch 5, 2015folk rebellion, huffington post, jess davis, screens, children and tech, screen sense, digital detox, digital divide, elon musk, kurt schilling, parenting Comments

This “Internet” Thing Has Gone Far Enough

From an evolutionary standpoint, it’s like discovering fire and using it to light our farts.

Tech Effects, The FactsJess DavisMarch 3, 2015break the internet, the dress, kim kardashian, social mediaComment

Social Media is the Edited, Sugar Coated, Selective Parts of Our Lives

We just feed each other shit and hope no one calls us on it. Figure if we're all doing it, it's okay.

Unplugging Manual, Tech Effects, The FactsJanne RobinsonFebruary 26, 2015social media, news feed, filter, unplug the drug, netflix depression, janne robinson, folk rebellion, narcissm, personal branding, fake, john mayer photoshop, selfies, filtered lifeComment

Let's Quit Looking Down, and Start Looking Up

Show up, differently by letting the people in your life know that they get first dibs, simply by being physically present in your life.

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, Mindfulness, The FactsJanne RobinsonFebruary 16, 2015Janne Robinson, look up, soul, roald dahl quote, eye contact, man missed whale, man on phone misses whale, missed opportunitiesComment

Waterfalls Are My Antidepressant

If you are stressed, anxious, sad, worn down I prescribe you one trip into the wild.

Unplugging Manual, Mindfulness, Counter CultureJess DavisFebruary 12, 2015wilderness, therapy, negative ions, waterfalls, Janne Robinson, Elephant Journal, earth, nature, healingComment

This Valentine's Day DONT WHIP IT OUT

Honey, hold out for more than a dick pic.

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, The FactsJess DavisFebruary 11, 2015tinder, tinder dating, dick pics, los angeles, new york, romance, chivalry, dating, real life, tech dating Comment

A Moment to Remind You

How you spend your days is how you spend your life. In the US, people spend an average of 7.4 hours per damn day looking at screens.

Tech Effects, The FactsJess DavisFebruary 2, 2015letter writing, texting, ereaders, writing letters, internet addictionComment

Hey You With the Pretty Face, Welcome to the Human Race*

Meditation works. Period. Give yourself 10 minutes.

Mindfulness, Unplugging Manual, Counter CultureJess DavisJanuary 23, 2015mediation, mindfulness, mindful, how to unplugComment