I love technology. That’s exactly why I think it needs to slow down. Every year there’s another phone, another laptop, another smartwatch, another must-have upgrade. The presentations get bigger, the marketing gets louder, and we’re told this year’s model changes everything. Most of the time, it doesn’t. The improvements have started feeling incremental while the…
Surprise, nobody knows what they’re doing
One of the funniest parts of becoming an adult is realizing nobody hands you the answers. At some point, you just start making decisions and hope they hold up. As a kid, I assumed adults had everything figured out. Teachers, parents, managers, doctors. I thought there was some invisible point where confidence arrived and uncertainty…
We’ve stopped discovering things
I don’t think we discover things as much anymore. We get handed them. A movie because you watched another movie. A song because it sounds like the last song. A restaurant because everyone else is going there. A book because it showed up on your feed. The algorithm has gotten really good at predicting what…
Access ≠ connection
Technology has made it easier than ever to reach people. It hasn’t necessarily made us closer. I can send a text, a voice note, an email, a meme, a reel, or react to someone’s story without thinking twice. I know what friends ate for dinner, where my coworkers went on vacation, and what my cousin’s…
What’s the rush
Somewhere along the way, everything became urgent. Every email is marked high priority. Every sale ends tonight. Every notification shows up red. Every package needs to arrive tomorrow. Every headline is breaking news. Everything is competing to convince you it deserves your attention before anything else does. The problem is that urgency loses its meaning…