I must give a warning to My Analog Life readers. After cutting my phone’s screentime to 30-60 minutes a day. All but eliminating social media. Cutting dopamine highs in other activities. I have become less cagey. I have become more focussed. I get more joy from meaningful activities yes. But I’m not necessarily much happier. […]
My Analog Life. Season 2, Episode 1: Detoxing from digital news and buying a newspaper Do you ever find yourself compulsively checking online news? Receiving articles from colleagues which you only read the headline, or feeling guilty about commenting about stories of which you actually don’t know much about? Perhaps, like myself, we need to […]
2022. London. Sign reads: “I will not be a bystander.”. Of all Shell’s crimes, the slogan ‘Shell Knew’ refers to Shell knowingly taking part in bribery and corruption in Nigeria, depriving citizens of billions in revenue, redirected to corrupt officials. I have been protesting for about ten years. Protesting climate change mostly, but also some […]
It’s somewhat easy once you are in a committed relationship to forget how terrible dating has become for many people. I put part of the blame for this on digital culture. Today is a short rant hopefully with some solutions. Problem 1: Dating apps are rubbish Dating apps are designed to make money, not spread […]
If you are my family/friend, please tread carefully reading this one! Particularly Part 2 which is my own journey. I will state foremost that I do not take a puritan or moral opinion on this subject of judgement. I want to point out the harms without judgement, nor moralising. Likewise for wider commentary, I consider […]
‘Yeah please scan this QR code which takes you to our app via our third-party partner to pay. An automatic service charge of 12.5% will be added to groups larger than 0. A brand and marketing charge of 15% will be added if you want a physical menu’ Not much to say here really than […]
There is something about the ‘modernised’ (digitalised) ordering food experience that doesn’t sit right with me. Issues with digital service charges discussed before, I have a second issue with digital tipping: it’s nature seems to have created a highly unequal tipping environment. Modern slavery is an issue cropping up repeatedly with food delivery apps (ubereats, […]
I’ve not got a whole bunch to say on this entry, other than I want to invite comments on why people are drawn to using Uber or similar services. I very rarely take cabs, but I wanted to note them as a shift towards ‘digitalisation’. The way I see it, I avoid Uber because I see […]
Ay ay ay… where to even begin? I think my beef with artificial intelligence and ‘using your damn brain’ starts all the way back in 2018. Around that time I became cognisant of how Google Maps had hindered my ability navigate without it. I moved to two new cities in the space of a few […]
My friend Josh recently completed a documentary marathon. He’s an apprentice journalist and was preparing to move to the documentaries team. So naturally he watched ten documentaries in 5 days. He said his most favourites were those produced in the 2000s, because those in the documentaries acted themselves in-front of the camera. The fourth wall […]