From Love is a grassroots community that helps people achieve a high level of digital well-being. The vast majority of people experience at least some level of addiction or compulsion with their phones and computers, scrolling, shopping, swiping, scanning, surfing, bingeing, the options are endless. If that’s you and you’re tired of it, then From Love is for you. 

From Love does not advocate a rejection of modern technology, but rather supports people in harnessing the immense gifts of modern technology to work for, rather than against, them. Putting technology in service of our deepest values and goals, or what Cal Newport calls “Digital Minimalism” is exactly what From Love strives to help people achieve. 

In the end, our relationship to technology is deeply personal and specific. What is meaningful and beneficial to you is different from what is meaningful and beneficial to me. Same too for what is depleting and detrimental. From Love is not built to tell you what to do. Rather it’s built to help you figure out what is meaningful to YOU and then help you to do that.

Attention conglomerates like Meta and Google have deployed vast teams and powerful algorithms to undermine our agency, and exploit human vulnerabilities in their pursuit of human attention. They have initiated a war on attention and the collateral costs of this war to both individuals and society are mounting. From Love is built as a counter movement, a sort of attention resistance in the ongoing war on attention. 

Critical to From Love’s philosophy is the belief that the process of investigation and habit change is super powered by community, the belief that we heal and transform most effectively when connected to others on the same path. Towards this end there are currently two main components to From Love, Digital Detoxes and the From Love Network. 

Digital Detoxes are cohort based challenges where people actively cultivate new habits. The From Love Network is a private social network where you can pursue education and foster relationships that support a new relationship to digital technology. 

With the Network you’ll find four sections: War on Attention, Compassion, Gratitude, and Basics (Mindfulness). The War on Attention section elucidates the forces that are arrayed against us in the current media landscape / attention economy. Understanding these forces and the neurological and psychological vulnerabilities they exploit to hijack our time and attention can equip us to begin to wrest back a basic sovereignty over our lives. The War on Attrition section includes activities to help you clarify your values and better understand what tech use you want to keep and what use you want to ditch.

The rest of the site is built around what you might do with your newfound time and attention when you’ve salvaged them from tempting, but ultimately self-sabotaging, media options. While there are many, many meaningful things to invest in — service, education, relationships, community, business, exploring the world, high quality leisure, to name a few, the focus at From Love is on building meditative skills. Much of my own studies and training over the last decade has been in contemplative traditions, particularly Buddhism, and this bent is reflected in From Love. Specifically, you will find pathways designed to train virtues like compassion, gratitude, and mindfulness. The learning process for any one of these is endlessly fascinating and satisfying. How much better would our lives be, how much better would the world be, if we could convert our wasted time into time developing these skills –in short, if we replaced tech habits we hate with meditation habits we love?

So welcome, welcome, welcome! I hope you’ll join From Love and become a part of creating a better world. 

Lots of love,
- Miles (find out more about me here)