Calm Tech
Principle that technology should require the smallest possible amount of attention. Technology can communicate, but doesn't need to speak.
Calm Tech
Slow design
design.family
sari and
The Patronship — Woolgather
woolgather.shI like the idea of offering a limited time/limited number of lifetime software memberships.
Why @obsdmd is 100% user-supported and not backed by VC investors:
1. We want to stay small, we don't need to hire lots of people
2. We follow strict principles that we do not want compromise
3. Our users are happy to support us, we don't need VC money
Obsidian will not exist forever, no app will. However, the files you create in Obsidian are you... See more
andrea and
Technology increasingly robs us of the mystical in our lives. Not everything needs to be fast and available and convenient. I love ideas and products that reveal themselves slowly - more whisper than scream.
-Dennis Paphitis
We don't necessarily need to constantly interact with people “around” us on the web. The sensation of being in the quiet companionship of someone else, like reading next to them in a cafe, is what we're missing. The sense of ambiently sharing space – of being co-present – while engaged in other activities is a staple of shared public spaces that we're still figuring out how to design in the digital realm.
Our current “multiplayer” experiences draw too much attention to the multiplayer-ness. The other people around you demand attention. They move. They flash. They point to exactly what they're focused on, drawing you away from your own focal point. We are missing out on a fuzzier, softer sense of the shared web.
We don't necessarily need to constantly interact with people “around” us on the web. The sensation of being in the quiet companionship of someone else, like reading next to them in a cafe, is what we're missing. The sense of ambiently sharing space – of being co-present – while engaged in other activities is a staple of shared public spaces that we
... See morearon • Ambient Co-Presence
Dolly Parton on why she’s only reachable through fax and doesn’t text:
“I’m a low-tech girl in a high-tech world. I don’t want to talk to everybody that wants to talk to me. I don’t text because I don’t want to have to answer.”