Technology, AI & Digital Life
I let an AI assistant plan my work week for a full month, treating its schedule as close to gospel unless something was genuinely broken, and the biggest change wasn’t productivity in…
I finally set up a password manager properly after a security scare that had nothing to do with hacking: I got locked out of an old email account I needed for a…
I canceled my last news subscription in roughly 2014 and spent a decade proudly getting my news for free, stitched together from social feeds, aggregator apps, and whatever headline a friend happened…
I bought a robot vacuum expecting a cleaner apartment and got, somewhat perversely, a messier one. Six months in, I finally admitted the pattern to myself: my living room floor is objectively…
I got genuinely lost three blocks from my own apartment on day two, and that’s when I realized how much I’d outsourced my sense of the city I’ve lived in for six…
I noticed the shift on a Tuesday when I caught myself typing a full question into a search bar and then getting mildly annoyed that it returned ten blue links instead of…
My smartwatch buzzed with a stress alert at 2:47 on a Tuesday afternoon, and my first reaction was mild annoyance, because I felt completely fine. I was just sitting at my desk…
I realized something was off when my friend Maya got engaged and I found out from a screenshot someone else posted in our group chat, forty minutes after she’d apparently told the…
My mother called me three times last Tuesday before I finally picked up, and my first reaction wasn’t concern that something was wrong. It was mild irritation, the specific modern irritation of…
I deleted TikTok on a Friday night, the way people quit smoking: dramatically, at midnight, with a mental speech about reclaiming my attention. I expected the first few days to be the…