The work day just started, it’s gonna be a long one…
I am a gen z coder but I am recently trying to sign out from as much digital world as I can and convert all my hobbies to analog.
I just feel like it breaks us as humans. I think many in my field approach social media and smartphones with certain respect and caution which only strengthens my own suspicions.
But you’re on Lemmy now. Shush, go outside!
/s if it wasn’t obvious enough
I was on the subway and saw a mum and her child who looked about 2 in a stroller and with a pacifier in. The child was being entertained by a tablet that she and her mum were controlling. I thought of how many screens that child will interact with throughout her life and how many of those would replace face-to-face conversations with another human that previous generations had
dae newspapers bad?
Iain Banks’ book The Business features an organisation where people vote for their leaders. It was quite credible, I thought.
For all the work from home’ers: Bad virtual desktop. Good virtual desktop.
I got diagnosed with Anhedonia after getting burnt out from working, shutting the work laptop, playing around my personal laptop for an hour, then going back to the work laptop to study for a qualification.
My life basically turned into this :
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