tech culture

A body wash trying to be fragrance trying to be philosophy. The utility of cleaning itself remains absent in it’s equation

Where is the purity of a tool that does one thing well, and one thing only?

We scramble for chargers while a swarm of notifications slice through our simple intentions. “I'm just trying to play music,” I say to myself, but one... See more

Stories like this are part of a pattern of experiences that show up again and again in social media. These patterns are the results of mechanisms like algorithms that optimize for engagement, concrete features that define our experience with technology.

These mechanisms, in turn, are the result of ways of thinking within technology companies.... See more

The rise of the social internet made it much easier to ghost people because it lacked consequence. The internet made it easier to have undefined situationships that never leave the dms. There are so many options and escape hatches at our fingertips, why deal with inconvenience? To be inconvenienced is to be connected to people. We’ve optimized,... See more

“The Instagram generation experiences the present moment as an anticipated memory.”

—Kahneman

Technology already takes care of the truly tedious things—a gold star to Microsoft Excel—but we’re still inventing, faster and faster than ever. The tech industry seems to have tasked itself with a mass excavation of everything “effortful”, and with every day that passes, the human hand becomes slightly more redundant.

I just don’t think this is... See more

The modern smartphone, laden with the corporate ecosystem pulsing underneath its screen, robs us of this feeling, conspires to keep us from “true” fullness. The swiping, the news cycles, the screaming, the idiocy — if anything destroys a muse, it’s this. If anything keeps you locked into a fetid loop of looking, looking, and looking once more at... See more

technology has made it easy to access the best parts of people’s lives. the part where we’re booked and busy. the part where we’re in the streets and the night is always young. the part that we want people to see. so it’s easy to assume that what we’re seeing is the truth. maybe, like me, it deters you from reaching out to people because you think... See more

And maybe we're all just tired. While the internet is forever, forever is exhausting. Sometimes you want your content to end. Sometimes you want to hold something real.

With more creators , more content , and more choice than ever before, consumers are now being consumed by a state of analysis paralysis. The real scarcity isn’t content anymore. It’s attention. When it’s impossible to absorb everything from the flood of information, the best we can do is pick and choose what matters to us most — or, better yet,... See more