by Charlie Moritz | Nov 15, 2016 | Blog
Screen addiction is a real thing. If you are skeptical please read on. When you are looking at a screen, you get heightened moments of elation, a release of dopamine, a neurochemical associated with pleasure. Other examples of things that release dopamine are alcohol,...
by Charlie Moritz | Nov 9, 2016 | Blog
The people have spoken, and they would rather have a man who defrauded people with a fake university, doesn’t pay any taxes on millions in earnings and has multiple accusations of sexual assault (which he bragged about) than a woman who mishandled her emails....
by Charlie Moritz | Nov 8, 2016 | Blog
Every time my website Live Work Play Japan posts something controversial we get an increase of about 20-30% responses. Most of them are negative, and those negative responses get more (double) negatives. People get into arguments, get annoyed at one another....
by Charlie Moritz | Nov 6, 2016 | Blog
Every day I see people posting causes on Facebook. “The bees are dying, we need to do something. Like and share.” “Look at this picture of a child from Syria after his town was bombed. Like, comment and share.” I’d like to argue that...
by Charlie Moritz | Nov 5, 2016 | Blog
So far my favourite of all the Black Mirror episodes of Season 3 is Nosedive. Why? Its true already. People are living based on what people think of them and their social media accounts. The simple quantifiable 5* rating is already everywhere, and it’s easy, but...
by Charlie Moritz | Nov 4, 2016 | Blog
When you say something it has meaning. When you write something that has meaning that can be passed on. Despite what people might think, the internet was not invented for cat videos and to share pictures of your pretty food on Facebook. It was invented so we could...
