– Your time and attention are valuable and rare, only share them with corporate interests on rare and valuable occasions.

– Regular intake of news is bad for your mind, your body, and your spirit. Consume just enough to be an informed citizen but no more.

– Prefer physical experiences to digital facsimiles or fantasies. Engage all five senses. Move. You will remember more, feel more, live better, and perceive time at a slower pace.

– Use digital media for consumption and publication but prefer physical media for creative work. Physical items will last longer and will not fall victim to changes in formats or media or the whims of cloud providers.

– Spend some time every day reconnecting with the previous days thoughts and feelings and contemplating the day ahead but spend most of your time in the present moment as much as you are able.

– Be aware of the influence of capitalism on your activities, especially those activities that matter most to you. Monetization is what they used to call “selling out”.

– Prefer food that is green, fresh, and unprocessed but a pizza now and then is good for the soul.

– Consider that you are a part of the animal kingdom and that the other animals are your actual relatives. Let that reality inform how you treat them.

– Stay out of internet flame wars. Fighting with strangers makes you feel good in the short term and feel bad in the long term. Fighting with family and friends just feels bad all around.

– Be offline by default, online with intention.  Don’t keep your phone on your person all the time.  Mute most notifications.  Use it only when you really need to.

– Go outside, especially when you don’t think you feel like it.

– Your actions have far more power to change your thoughts than your thoughts do to change your actions. Decide what you wish to change about how you think or feel, start acting as if you think or feel that way, and you soon will.

– Avoid multi-tasking. First do one thing, then do another thing, the total time you spend will be less than if you tried to do them at the same time.

– Make time to actively and intentionally listen to music. Don’t relegate it to a background soundtrack all the time. Sit down, stop doing other stuff, really listen. It’ll help.

– Try new things. Go to new places. Meet new people.  Eat new foods. Listen to new music. Read new authors.

– Read books and long-form essays and articles regularly, tweets/feeds/listicles/news infrequently (if at all).

– When you spend money with a business, don’t give them any further rights beyond the current transaction. Don’t sign up for marketing emails or grant them permissions to monetize their relationship with you. You already gave them your money, don’t give them your future time as well.

– If the gas station has pumps that play ads at you, go to a different gas station, unless there is a mute button.

– When you do work with digital technologies, prefer open-source, non-proprietary, and community based to the corporate alternative.

– Be patient with other people. Be kind to them. Apologize when you step out of line. Hope for the same in return but if you don’t get it, do it anyway.

– And as Steve McQueen once said: Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyhow.