I love the internet, "new media", code, games, and gadgets. But after seeing Derek Jacobi in King Lear at BAM, I felt an aliveness that went down to my toetips and lasted well into the next day. Going deep (not the shallows), going far afield (beyond my social media echo chamber), and being inner - I want balance with all the cool web stuff I do, and with extremely limited (and dwindling time). My first pass at finding that energizing mix - with the help of the internet and other media, even. Kip is an SVP doing digital innovation stuff in advertising. He’s been a creative director, a copywriter, a Congressional speechwriter, a computer game designer, and union organizer. @kipbot kipbot.com

1. Kip VOYTEK Shallows, Echoes, and Inner Space @kipbot

2. A great buzz:

3. A day later, still a great buzz:

4. The Problem: == sugar high

5. The Disclaimer: @kipbot == geek && != Luddite

6. The (unexpected) answer from friends: “sounds to me like you just need to unplug, man”

8. But . . . Wait!

9. But . . . No.

10. "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it" - Emerson

11. The “Shakespeare Effect”

12. Carl Sagan’s Take “This is the kind of problem that is fun to think about while walking in the woods on a winter morning”

13. Montaigne’s Take “I meditate on any satisfaction. I do not skim over it; I sound it.”

14. Build Interior Objects, Not Catalogs

15. Soul Objects Fixed & surprising Multi-layered Grow with you Protein, not sugar

16. Look for More… Not Next…

17. Seek out voice

18. Leave the crowd(sourcers) Does it have to be Wikipedia?

19. Dodge the algorithms

20. Help me! www.kipbot.com @kipbot #soulobject Soul feeding digital: www.3quarksdaily.com Peter Meyers’s “Breaking the Page” project www.openculture.com

21. Twitter Version RT @kipbot Don't shun digital, reclaim it. Free of crowd and code, build soul objects, engage new voices, go deep, not broad. #awesome