Offline is the new luxury

The message of the medium we call AI is the obfuscation of responsibility and relationship.

My house plants became healthier and died less often once I stopped tracking their watering, stopped trying to use moisture meters or other tools, and learned to pick up on their vibes instead. Many such cases.

Thesis: We are not addicted to the internet or smart phones. Rather, our will power is utterly depleted by the persistent cognitive, emotional, and moral demands they make of us.

The pandemic showed us how tech companies profit immensely when we’re isolated and forced to spend more time staring at screens. The entire push to roll out headsets can’t be separated from that reality: they want us to always be looking at screens.