Humane Tech
Content and projects that inspire the creation of technology that treats attention and intention as sacred, protects well-being, and builds our collective capacity to address humanity’s most urgent challenges
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Humane Tech
41 Questions For The Technologies We Use, and That Use Us
podcasts.apple.comthe honesty here is breathtaking - from the founder of daylight.computer
“One of the tragedies of doing humane tech is you lose the humanity in the process of surviving the world, of trying to build something, of trying to get it funded”
Welf's Garden - Welf's Garden
welf.co
Just a lovely personal site - copywriter I want to remember.
📣 Request for examples 📣
Mini apps and bits of software you’ve built just for yourself and/or friends and family.
Things that don’t scale, aren’t meant for others to use, & valuable just for your specific, snowflake use case.
Ideally custom built, but could be... See more
nametwitter.com
Rituals are how we make meaning, personally and together.
In games studies, these worlds-within-a-world are called magic circles. A magic circle is the space where the game takes place.
We need ritual technology. Technology designed for ritual use.
Why? Most of the software we use daily is designed to engagement-max. Social media feeds, loot boxes, compulsion loops, gang gang yes yes yes ice cream so good. You’re caught in a feedback loop with the algorithm, and you are the squishiest part of that loop.
Where social media is compulsive, tools for thought are reflective. Where social media is here and now, tools for thought dwell in the long now. Tools for thought slowly build compounding momentum through low, slow feedback loops that point us in the directions we want to develop.
even if daos *can* be used for coops/participatory democracy/etc, nothing about the tech *guarantees* this — it's dangerous to conflate technological and sociopolitical progress & we should remember to tell the difference
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