Finding it harder and harder to keep using the web. Tracking, attention hoarding, surveillance, the horror.
It wasn’t meant to be like this. This isn’t what we thought it was going to be.
@dgold “Encountering this distressing collection of concerns—from the exhausting and addictive overuse of these tools, to their ability to reduce autonomy, decrease happiness, stoke darker instincts, and distract from more valuable activities—opened my eyes to the fraught relationship so many now maintain with the technologies that dominate our culture. It provided me, in other words, a much better understanding of what Andrew Sullivan meant when he lamented: “I used to be a human being.” “
Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport