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As days turn into weeks, months and years, all your constant tech use is teaching you something. All those gadgets you buy, apps you download, websites you visit, cookies you accept, all of it is constantly telling you of a way to think about your tech and about yourself. I submit to you that it has been telling you (largely) a lie.
Each person’s path to subduing their tech will look different - I am not here to boss you around. But you do need to recalibrate your baseline, your frame of reference. Here I provide a non-exhaustive list of principles that I think can help with that.
Think these through. Add your own. Recalibrate, on your terms.
Your life and your mind are precious. You are nobody’s toy.
Your tech is supposed to serve and be controlled by you. To the degree that this is not achieved, the tech belongs to someone else, even if it is in your possession.
Not all tech is bad, you just need to be sharper at identifying where tricks have been laid and then playing a smarter game.
With some focused effort, you can create for yourself and your loved ones a much freer tech existence.
Big Tech wants you overwhelmed, confused and under the impression there are no alternatives. They are desperate for you to stay lazy.
Every single technological development, though neatly packaged into your cute phone, is the result of by real-world, physical decisions (software is a person) that are your responsibility to vet.
The tech world is almost completely NOT yours. This includes all those gadgets you “own” - they are nothing more than somebody else’s gadgets that are just currently in your possession.