digital minimalism

Phone addiction. One thing that I've really seen on this trip is how strong my pattern is to turn to my phone when I'm not feeling well, physically or emotionally. Feeling my feelings isn't addictive! I'm also noticing the general culture here in Taiwan of people always being on their phones. At restaurants or the hotel breakfast, I've noticed couples eating together who are just on their phones the whole time. So weird to me. Comparing this to Nepal where I would see people just sitting on their front doorsteps looking out onto the road...

This is something that I've worked on a lot, but it's still difficult to really take in how collectively addicting technology is. I think I know one person who has a good relationship with it.

tldr; we won't be meeting this week. Back the 10th. Still use whenever! UpTrust has a cool policy Blake Borgeson envisioned where the whole team takes a week off (in the summer, and again in winter between christmas and new year). This is the spirit of our mission to do things deeply aligned with well-being; a lot of people working for software companies have found that it can be hard to take time off when the rest of their team isn’t.

I’ll still take a little time to respond to some things, and encourage everyone to use it!

Of course you’re very welcome to jump on the zoom without us; it should work even without a host.

See y’all on the 10th.
love
J