The Mindful Technologist - On the intersection of Spirit and Tech.

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• Silence-seeker.

📍 Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand)

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  • @MargotRobbie

    As a fully remote/flexible/async SW developer contractor paid by the hour, I have a different situation than most.

    Personally I do not install any work apps on my phone because I could easily end up “doing work” that I don’t really get paid for.

    When I work, I sit down at my actual PC intentionally, I start a timer, and I bill for my time that I take doing work only.

    I avoid any work that I need to respond to outside of that and I make this fact known to anyone I work with.





  • @MargotRobbie I used iPhones for 7 years when they first came out. Almost always kept it jailbroken where possible. Eventually switched to Android and I found I could do the things out of the box, that previously required jailbreak with iPhone. Around that time, Android UX had caught up to iPhone as well. Custom app stores (F-Droid), custom launchers and more.

    Eventually got sick of Android too. Now I use #lineageos (only a subtle difference) and now I feel like I actually own my smartphone.



  • There’s a tendency to think social isolation is bad or think something is wrong with us for doing it. IMO most people who go out and party all the time are also just “socially isolating”, by putting up a front, drinking etc, with no real deep connection. No vulnerability and openness. If you have deep relationship with family you are probably better off.

    Your wisdom could be telling you not to waste your time going out with shallow folks. Having 1 or 2 deep friends is nice.


  • Yeah I thought ads are worthless too, as everyone I know just blocks them. But that’s when I realized the people like us who block ads ARE the 10% they now neglect! the other clueless 90% of masses are the ones they are after. There are so many more of them and they are so much easier to monetize

    They gave up on us because we are too smart and they cant squeeze anything out of us.

    IMO that’s why we have to accept that its time to leave and build our own better internet lol


  • Call me a conspiracy theorist but the amount and intensity of data they must get out of this is huge. They will know all the accounts that are anti-spez which they can monitor and algorithmically demote (soft censorship).

    Reddit, like most captive-tech these days, is shifting to optimizing only for providing endless distraction to the 90% of mindless hoards which are easy to monetize.

    I suspect Youtube will be next in line to squeeze the lemon, now that they are trying to block adblockers.