A Crash Course in Becoming SuperBetter – Jane McGonigal

McGonigal is famous for her ideas about harnessing the skills and powers of the gamers of the world to make it a better place (Reality is Broken) But back in 2009 she had a concussion – and the treatment is basically: Do nothing, have no entertainment. No wonder the suicide rates for concussed people are 3x average. McGonigal felt her choice was to either kill herself, or turn it into a game – and so many people used the idea to improve their live quality. She’s now made it more easily adaptable in cooperation with university researchers. It’s all about building up resilience: physical, social, mental and emotional!

Present your digital present -in one place

Keeping up with your new years resolution to get your digital life in shape? Did you clean up your app permissions and your digital past? Well it’s time for step 3: Present your digital present – in one place. Why leave your digital identity to strangers? Take control, claim your digital content and give people an single [...]

Clean up your digital past

Keeping up with your new years resolution to get your digital life in shape? Did you clean up your app permissions already? Well it’s time for step 2: Cleaning up your digital past. Still have that MySpace account moulding away in the back of you digital closet? Not sure if you ever left that photo-sharing [...]

A New Year’s Resolution for your digital identity?

Since January is 7 days old, I’m sure you’ve already started running, you’re eating healthier and are meditating daily. But how is your digital self? Still bloated, unsafe and out of shape?
Start this year with a health check of your digital identity – and get in shape, be happier and healthier! The first step is easy: Clean up your app permissions.

The Goose Tower – and I’m king of the hill.

Motivation for longterm goals is all about changing the focus to a series of small short term goals, and create your own small moment of Zen

STOP using email! v. 1.0

Email has become what future generations will refer to as the digital plague. It may not kill us physically, but it will stress us down, and burn our brain cells in a toxic steam of stress hormons.

Trends from SXSW Interactive 2011

SXSWi 2011 trends: Technology has zoomed in on humans and their strange behaviour, and games can motivate them to change it. The web has stopped being a separate world, doing good is now a serious business strategy, and the future is not coming – it’s here!

SXSWi, or There and Back Again

Where the dot.com triggered the fantasy that “if we build it, they will come” – and we will be rich, the dot.com version 2 has taken the human behavior into the equation and hired cognitive scientists.

OH @SXSWi:
“The internet is only in its teens – 15 years old, and I haven’t had sex yet”