change remains constant, meet unwound
Wow, well here we are just a mere 3 days since “he” was re-elected by a “decisive vote”.
What does a 2nd term look and feel like?
How do I change my relationship to my smartphone as we move beyond the excessive doomscrolling of the election?
Can drinking tea actually help relax me amidst this new abnormal?
Is tech really looking after my best interests?
If we’re connected to culture by stories, what stories and narratives do we imagine now in this truly unprecedented era of political earthquakes?
I don’t have the answers to these questions but I am asking them every day.
I really didn’t know what to do with this substack so I kept iterating as the focus of my questions changed.
Something struck me as I woke up and read the news after my brief and essential morning routine before reaching for my iPhone…
we need to slow tf down
we need to relax
we must adhere to the natural cycles of organic life:
day / night, sleep / awake, winter / summer, stop / go
We can’t keep going on grinding away and hustling against an always-on culture that’s increasingly automated by inorganic entities (also known as algorithmic agents and AI) driving the frenetic pace of life and leading us to burnout and collapse.
(I think) for now I’ve settled into this subtle realization and am calling it Unwound
…or the past tense of unwind.
unwind /ŭn-wīnd′/
intransitive verb
To reverse the winding or twisting of.
"unwind a ball of yarn."
To separate the tangled parts of; disentangle.
To free (someone) of nervous tension or pent-up energy.
I’m going to focus on writing and sharing with the explicit purpose of helping to free (you) of nervous tension and/or pent-up energy.
This will be explored through navigating what I feel are the concentric circles of tech, tea, design & digital wellbeing.
I don’t yet know what the cadence of posts will be but there will be a mixture of writings, audio essays / interviews, guided meditations, tea explorations and more.
Thanks for being here, let me know your thoughts.
“if you give good people bad information, they inevitably make bad choices”
- Yuval Noah Harari