read your piece. Really nice. It hits on this idea of adding in tech to solve the problem of tech addiction. It analogous to a kind of dieting I've seen where rather than eat less, people find healthy things to add in. Like having a smoothie after McDonalds will add in some health into your body. The answer is subtraction. No new tech is going to make you less addicted to tech. Im rambling a bit, but you get what I mean.
Whoop prides itself on not having a screen. Allows it to not compete directly with other screen devices in terms of features. But it does have a screen. Its just outsourcing it.
Eventually, as much as we want to avoid it, I think the solution really is to get rid of the iPhone -- for so many reasons (surveillance, AI, quantification of our lives, etc.). But, I really don't know how I'd cope! Fwiw, I did get rid of the Whoop and have been super content without it.
Yeah, when the new light phone comes out I’m getting that. Just texting and calls and directions. I use a camera for photos anyways now. But also I know that will never be the norm and I don’t expect most people to make any kind of similar change. I wonder if there is a more scalable way to combat the war on attention.
Really appreciate this post expanding the quantification of ourselves beyond just wearables. We're getting lost in the numbers. I wrote about this phenomenom too, after wearing a Whoop for a while: https://open.substack.com/pub/wardofmouth/p/casio-f-91w?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
read your piece. Really nice. It hits on this idea of adding in tech to solve the problem of tech addiction. It analogous to a kind of dieting I've seen where rather than eat less, people find healthy things to add in. Like having a smoothie after McDonalds will add in some health into your body. The answer is subtraction. No new tech is going to make you less addicted to tech. Im rambling a bit, but you get what I mean.
Whoop prides itself on not having a screen. Allows it to not compete directly with other screen devices in terms of features. But it does have a screen. Its just outsourcing it.
Eventually, as much as we want to avoid it, I think the solution really is to get rid of the iPhone -- for so many reasons (surveillance, AI, quantification of our lives, etc.). But, I really don't know how I'd cope! Fwiw, I did get rid of the Whoop and have been super content without it.
Yeah, when the new light phone comes out I’m getting that. Just texting and calls and directions. I use a camera for photos anyways now. But also I know that will never be the norm and I don’t expect most people to make any kind of similar change. I wonder if there is a more scalable way to combat the war on attention.