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Maintaining a healthy mind, working computer jobs — 8 tips!

Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
5 min readApr 6, 2019

Technology has changed how we work — as well as how to measure our production and especially how we consume content.

I graduated from a graduate program in 2001. At this time, nothing was more coveted than to land a tech job, especially one in Silicon Valley — working on “cool” design ideas. The idea that I would have a job, using computers, pushing out designs, reports and documents had become the “modern” trajectory of the life for myself and many in my generation. There was nothing abnormal to sit, glued to a screen, navigating from online content consumption and then back again to native applications to pass my day.

Up to this point, it seems that my sense of “production” had become coupled, if not entwined with computers and the outputs they produce.

And then one day something happened — I felt like my thinking process was in a looped glitch.

I found it hard to get past a book chapter — even to formulate full thoughts. Hours would pass, and I found myself staring at a blank screen, producing less and less and feeling helpless. In truth, a lot of the work I had been doing is today automated or semi-automated, and honestly, my eyes were not in a healthy place.

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Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C

Written by Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C

A Tech Humanist, I write about society, culture, technology, education, & AI. Additionally, I am a villager at heart.

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