Buddhist Geeks

Author Biography:

Soren Gordhamer works with individuals and groups on ways to live with less stress and greater creativity, particularly in relationship to technology. His most recent book is Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Teachings for the Creative and Constantly Connected, which offers tools for living with greater focus and ease in our increasingly connected world. He blogs for the Huffington Post, and for the Social Media blog, Mashable.

As project director for Richard Gere’s public charity, Healing the Divide, he organized The Healing through Great Difficulty conference with his Holiness, the Dalai Lama. He has been featured in various media, including GQ Magazine and Newsweek.com, and has taught everywhere from youth in New York City juvenile halls, trauma workers in Rwanda, teachers in Nigeria, and to staff at the Googleplex.

Website: SorenGordhamer.com
Twitter: @SorenG

Episode Description:
In this episode we’re joined by Soren Gordhamer, long time tech writer, and author of Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected. Soren often writes for the Huffington Post and Mashable (a social media blog) on the relationship between the inner world with technology and social media. He explores with us some of the potential shadow sides of technology, as well as some of the remedies that can be used in balancing our internal life with our external. He suggests that focusing more consciously on our internal world actually puts us in a [...]

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