From the first moment I turned on my smartphone I was enchanted. Upon activating, the device emitted a strange, though not unpleasing, ethereal noise as an electric blue swirl flashed on the screen. I resisted buying one until 2013. As predicted,…
Category: Digital Dilemma
Tracking Toxic Relationships
I recently heard about a new app called pplkpr, pronounced “people keeper”, to help you keep track of your emotions when interacting with people. It’s designed to help you discover patterns and trends in your emotional state based on who…
Over and Out
A friend of mine was telling me about a particular annoyance with communicating via text. Her challenge, it seemed, was that she could never tell when the conversation was over. She never knew when she was supposed to respond or just let…
Textual Relations
I first started texting in 2001 when I spent 6 months in Paris as an exchange student. Everybody texted because it was cheaper than calls. When I returned texting didn’t catch on until a while later. Now texting is one of the…
The Creative Process
For some reason I instinctually want to begin the creative process in analog. Maybe it’s because I’m a musician so creating organically feels the most natural. Whenever I want to write, I always reach for paper first and then I remind myself to use…