This is a very helpful orientation to both of these authors, and I appreciate the time you’ve taken to mediate this material to get us to think again about our relationship to tech. I’d love to know what practices help us befriend ourselves. Solitude? Journaling? Community? Lots to reflect on here!
I think the practices you mention are a key part of the journey of befriending. Solitude is, perhaps, the hardest to appreciate and practice, but it provides the space necessary to listen well to what we discover in journaling and community.
I wonder, though, if we actually need to think about an intermediate step between our typical use of certain technologies - adding friction at specific points. One of the main features of most UX we encounter through our devices is the *absence* of friction - making it so very, very easy to tap-swipe-repeat without pause or thought. How do we add friction to *that* practice?
This is a very helpful orientation to both of these authors, and I appreciate the time you’ve taken to mediate this material to get us to think again about our relationship to tech. I’d love to know what practices help us befriend ourselves. Solitude? Journaling? Community? Lots to reflect on here!
Thank you, Rachel!!
I think the practices you mention are a key part of the journey of befriending. Solitude is, perhaps, the hardest to appreciate and practice, but it provides the space necessary to listen well to what we discover in journaling and community.
I wonder, though, if we actually need to think about an intermediate step between our typical use of certain technologies - adding friction at specific points. One of the main features of most UX we encounter through our devices is the *absence* of friction - making it so very, very easy to tap-swipe-repeat without pause or thought. How do we add friction to *that* practice?
Lots to reflect on, as you say!