This captures something I struggle with daily; how do you tend to your children and be present in mundane moments, when you could instead get the instant dopamine hit of the world's best ideas? The competition between presence and endless intellectual stimulation feels impossible to navigate. We have 24/7 access to everything, but no framework for
... See moreYou describe the digital as "an implacable engine of addiction, loneliness, false hope, cruelty, psychosis, indebtedness, squandered life, the corrosion of memory and social disintegration. All of it its touted benefits are rendered irrelevant or secondary by its injurious and sociocidal impacts"... My intention wasn't to point the finger of blame
... See moreI don’t really know where I fit into the great scheme of things, and how my bits of data connect with the bits produced by billions of other humans and computers. I don’t have time to find out, because I am too busy answering all the emails.