I took this photo in Atlanta, 2020 and it still makes me so happy to look at it.
We shape our environments, and thereafter they shape us. Great technology does more than solve problems. It weaves itself into the world we inhabit. At its best, it can expand our capacity, our connectedness, our sense of what’s possible. Technology can bring out the best in us.
— The Resonant Computing Manifesto
It’s 5:30am and I’m walking home from the gym, legs a little jiggly. Watching the sky shift from magenta to orange to blue. I take a quick moment to track the workout and tag a few usual partners in crime, and move on feeling more ready for my day ahead.
This is what technology can feel like. Ambient. Warm. In service of something real.
But we all know that feeling isn’t guaranteed. I quit Instagram last year.
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