BULL GARLINGTON | UNPLUGGED

Reclaiming What's Real in an
Increasingly Unreal World

Analog strategies against AI skill erosion,

digital overwhelm, and the 

death of creativity.

PRODUC TIVITY IS KILLING YOU.

Is there a way to push back against AI skill erosion, corporate burnout, inbox overwhelm paralysis, and the rest of the giant basket of contemporary maladies that come with a nearly frictionless digital workspace?

Can management motivate workers whose creativity is being consumed by AI? Can they ensure a through-line from today’s known workflow to the unknown workflows in the future? And can they do that while ensuring they don’t fall prey to quiet quitting, to digital apathy, or to creative surrender?

There is. I’ve been writing about it for the last ten years at Analog Attorney. There is a quiet, low-key professional revolution bringing analog tools back into the digital workspace. In this emerging hybrid workspace, thought leadership isn’t scraped off websites—it’s developed slowly, by hand, on paper. Outlook is still the calendar of the realm, and the email channel is through which work communications flow. But now there’s a journal perched on the edge of the desk where an executive pulls data from his role and synthesizes it into meaning. It’s not there to replace MS Office. The digital desktop is there to do the work. Analog is there to understand it.

WORKPLACE CULTURE

Helping employees find meaning in their work, reducing turnover and burnout.
Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, and Albert Camus, knew each individual has a unique purpose. In telling the hilarious, heartwarming story of discovering his own purpose late in life while floating in a lazy river at a Disney resort, Bull illustrates why such an endeavor is vital to living a fulfilled life, to eradicating depression, and as an antidote to fragility. By anchoring deep existential philosophy into practical, everyday action, Bull shows audiences how a clarified purpose functions as the ultimate resilience strategy, driving measurable increases in personal output, professional longevity, and collaborative success.

STRATEGIC THINKING

Helping employees find meaning in their work, reducing turnover and burnout.
Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, and Albert Camus, knew each individual has a unique purpose. In telling the hilarious, heartwarming story of discovering his own purpose late in life while floating in a lazy river at a Disney resort, Bull illustrates why such an endeavor is vital to living a fulfilled life, to eradicating depression, and as an antidote to fragility. By anchoring deep existential philosophy into practical, everyday action, Bull shows audiences how a clarified purpose functions as the ultimate resilience strategy, driving measurable increases in personal output, professional longevity, and collaborative success.

DIGITAL WELLNESS

Helping employees find meaning in their work, reducing turnover and burnout.
Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, and Albert Camus, knew each individual has a unique purpose. In telling the hilarious, heartwarming story of discovering his own purpose late in life while floating in a lazy river at a Disney resort, Bull illustrates why such an endeavor is vital to living a fulfilled life, to eradicating depression, and as an antidote to fragility. By anchoring deep existential philosophy into practical, everyday action, Bull shows audiences how a clarified purpose functions as the ultimate resilience strategy, driving measurable increases in personal output, professional longevity, and collaborative success.