📢 New Essay:

"What if the exhaustion everybody feels isn't a moral failure but the completely rational response to being made responsible for an ecosystem of objects that never stop asking?"

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

The Last Quiet Thing

Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

Terry Godier
@tg fascinating insight! For a while now something has not felt right to me with all those digital detox/digital minimalism write-ups floating around, I even saw that was particularly infuriating that went something like "what, you want to take photos to remind you of special occasions? Bro just improve your photographic memory! You don't need a smartphone!" And it dialed home how detached from reality these pieces were becoming. But your article really nails down on what the real problems are