Ah—your essays are so often a long, slow exhale. Stoked to read your award winning short story, how cool! Love the process-oriented goals rather than results-oriented. I suppose I have a couple of each... One of our rabbits chewed through our internet cords and the next several days were SO NICE. Not filling up every in-between moment with information, just lazing on the couch watching the buns hop around, visiting or reading with no distraction. I really think it’s time to figure out how to make life work without internet at home. We’ll see what happens, but I crave the creative boredom you describe so much more after having a taste of it.
I was reading this article in the New Yorker about the struggle to get kids to go back to school regularly in the years post-lockdown. Educators were discussing how young people prefer to stay home on their computers where they can play games on the side (they didn’t say social media, but they probably meant that too). It got me thinking about how the psychology of building appealing/addictive apps for “adults” is undermining an entire generation’s public education. I’m willing to be hyperbolic here because it just kind of stopped me in my tracks. Of course, every generation thinks the world is going to hell in a hand basket with whatever new form of media. And yet.
Ah—your essays are so often a long, slow exhale. Stoked to read your award winning short story, how cool! Love the process-oriented goals rather than results-oriented. I suppose I have a couple of each... One of our rabbits chewed through our internet cords and the next several days were SO NICE. Not filling up every in-between moment with information, just lazing on the couch watching the buns hop around, visiting or reading with no distraction. I really think it’s time to figure out how to make life work without internet at home. We’ll see what happens, but I crave the creative boredom you describe so much more after having a taste of it.
I was reading this article in the New Yorker about the struggle to get kids to go back to school regularly in the years post-lockdown. Educators were discussing how young people prefer to stay home on their computers where they can play games on the side (they didn’t say social media, but they probably meant that too). It got me thinking about how the psychology of building appealing/addictive apps for “adults” is undermining an entire generation’s public education. I’m willing to be hyperbolic here because it just kind of stopped me in my tracks. Of course, every generation thinks the world is going to hell in a hand basket with whatever new form of media. And yet.