Ep. 365: What Technology Wants (and How to Push Back)

What percentage of your time spent using technology is dedicated to services that make you feel worse? Why do we end up entangled with tools that don't seem to have our best interest in mind? How do we escape this fate and take back control of our attention and reclaim our lives? Today? We're going to tackle these issues.

I'm Cal Newport, and this is Deep Questions, the show about cultivating a deep life in a distracted world. Today's episode, what technology wants and how to push back. Part one, a tale. of two technologies. So Jesse, I don't know if you noticed this, but several people sent us this same Substack post recently.

It had an arresting photo. I'm going to put this up on the screen for people who are watching instead of just listening. You see in this photo something you don't normally see. The young kid laying on a couch talking on an old-fashioned hardwired landline, the whole curly wire. and everything.

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