rejecting convenience
Tech optimists keep promising us we’re just one innovation away from magically enhancing our capacity for connection and meaning. Meanwhile, the messy, unoptimisable business of being alive remains stubbornly resistant to algorithmic solutions, reminding us that our limitations are the very features that make our existence worthwhile
-Kai, Dense
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Boredom is equal parts protest and love.
all my friends and i talk about is getting rid of our phones
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How to Quit Instagram For Real
youtube.comWho is bestowing unto us this notion that life is supposed to be bliss and that anything less than an easy, breezy life is cause to raise the alarm?
I reject this expectation.
I reject the incessant pathologizing of the negative aspects of the human experience. Maybe you’re not depressed, maybe you’re just...sad? IT’S OK TO BE SAD. IT’S A THING... See more
I reject this expectation.
I reject the incessant pathologizing of the negative aspects of the human experience. Maybe you’re not depressed, maybe you’re just...sad? IT’S OK TO BE SAD. IT’S A THING... See more
everybody wants to do ayahuasca but nobody wants to do the dishes
I hate my phone so I got rid of it
youtube.comI Dumb-i-fied my iPhone and Got My Life Back (iPod Week 3)
youtube.comJobs are a great example: Particularly if you’re early in your career, you should aim to get rejected from most things you apply for. If you have not yet learned the skill of absorbing rejection, court it deliberately: Apply for some jobs you really don’t think you’ll get so you can learn to decouple “no” from surprise and dejection.