Tech driving society

At our game night recently we had five or six teenage boys come over to the house to hang out. It was a lot of fun, and we enjoyed eating waffles and the making waffle ice cream sandwiches at 10 o'clock at night after playing a game of pool in the basement.

One of the interesting things I noted was that when they came to my house they didn't knock on the door. They texted my son to let him know that they were there at the door. And then they just stood outside while my wife sat in the living room waiting for someone to knock.

This new generation has not been taught what we were taught. They've been raised looking at screens and programmed by people who want to addict them to their products.

They don't reply to personal text messages. They don't commit to anything until the last minute, and even then they tend not to commit to it they just show up.

It's a new time with a lot of the new rules in society. It's a puzzle because in order to survive there rewriting the rules and making things different.

I hope that we can adapt together.

Our home is comfortable

Our youngest recently turned 18. He has friends that he likes to have over to play video games and hang out with.

He tells me that his friends liked coming over because they think of our home as "comfortable". Nothing specific, just the feel of it.

Awesome!

New wrinkle

A new and interesting wrinkle in my life is to be the one that other people are trying to figure out and see what exactly I know and don't know whether I'm for them or against them and all is sort of thing. It's interesting.

Look Pray Do

I read in a Chris Brogan post a few years ago about coming up with 3 words for each year to help remind you of what you're focus is.

The three words I chose for 2019 are

Look | Pray | Do

Why? I decided that I didn't want to walk around in a fog or in auto-pilot this year. As I figure on actually looking at things I am learning to actually be present in things I am doing instead of always being focused on the future. As the year goes on I am learning to look at things in a simpler way, with a beginner's mindset, which is challenging at the 54th level. (meme reference)

Prayer is important. Prayer is challenging. Prayer changes things. So I wanted to focus on it this year. So far so good, though I still feel guilty when I meditate without praying.

I tend to stay in planning mode. Always looking ahead, probing for threats and plotting ways around them. "Do" is helping me get into action so that in 2020 I don't have to say I didn't do things. So far so good!

Those are my three words this year. What're yours?