Technology, AI & Digital Life
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…
My refrigerator stopped making ice on a Sunday, which is exactly the kind of small domestic failure that shouldn’t matter and somehow does. I called an appliance repair technician on Monday, and…
Three years ago I paid $59 one time for a note-taking app that promised “lifetime access, forever.” Last month I opened it and found a banner telling me the developer had shut…