i don't even want to write about tech
i spend a lot of time reading about technology, the impact of technology on culture, the new tech, the old tech. i spend a lot of time thinking about it too. and getting angry. have you ever thought about smashing a smart phone? i have. i could bend back the laptop i'm writing on and snap it in half. i don't think it would be hard. would the screen go out immediately or fade like light from dead eyes?
i'm getting off track.
i've been using the term 'digital minimalism purgatory' in my own head as the a way to describe the state between logged on and logged off. the state in which one has abandoned all 'traditional social media' in favor of blogs and the 'indie web' and turned off the algorithms... only to then spend all that time instead consuming content about how to consume less content. watching videos about screen time and about watching less videos. writing posts about writing less posts. whatever the hell it is i am doing right now. trading in mind-numbing videos for videos about how great it is to not be watching mind-numbing videos is some kind of step but it doesn't quite feel like a forward facing one.
whenever i see a video title or link along the lines of 'how to stop scrolling!' i say to myself, 'yeah, i already know how to do that.' and i close my browser.