Category: Digital Humanities
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Slow the scroll: Week 1 of mindful digital consumption
Brain rot was the word of last year, and I have not felt a word as strongly in a while. The moment Oxford announced it as the word of the year, I was re-looking my entire content consumption cycle. Because this is the first week I am writing this, some context. Growing up, I wanted…
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Collect the dots before you connect the dots
Steve Jobs’ said this to Stanford, and the world absorbed it as its motto. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards,” he said, to eager students, pushing them to not over-plan their life, and take it as it comes. This idea of connecting the dots is not new – it…
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Do you remember your first blog?
Snapchat, BeReal, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, Substack – the list of the places where I am regularly present on, is endless. I share photos, gifs, videos, texts of all manners, freely, flowingly, trusting, expressing (even sometimes when I know we should not). My opinions, however silly, stupid, profound, lame, uncool, cringe, unpopular, unrefined, go…