Digital Values Exercise
Decide what technology is for in your life, before deciding what to cut.
WHAT ISTHIS FOR?
20 minutes / Digital LifeMost people's digital lives were never designed — they accumulated. Apps arrived, notifications stayed on, habits formed around whatever was easiest. Intentionality is mostly a matter of deciding things on purpose that were previously decided for you.
Good for: deciding what technology is allowed to be for
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Write the five things that matter most to you this year.
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For each, note how technology helps and how it interferes.
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Find the one place where interference is largest.
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Change only that. Values-led changes outlast rule-led ones.
Take what you found into a check-in, or read the thinking behind the tool. Saving it puts it on your shelf in My Modern Human.
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