It's working pretty well. I certainly use my phone for some things, especially if I'm away from the house. But I've just set habits that if I'm doing certain things (writing more than a sentence or two, buying things online, etc.) I just default to a laptop.
Having a microwave doesn't force me to eat TV dinners for every meal. But sometimes it's convenient to just microwave food. Just not all the time.
I don't think avoiding phone usage completely is needed, just a shift in mentality towards favoring "I'll sit down and work on this when I get home" over pulling out your phone to take care of things when you first think of them.
Downloading music off the internet is just the next logical step after taping songs off the radio. Cassette tapes didn't really affect the music industry, so I wouldn't worry about this whole Napster thing.
Mass media homogenizes our input (which influences our output). If we want to think about how AI might be different we should consider how it might directly homogenize our output.
I'm working on a little flat file based blogging tool called Postwave ( https://github.com/dorkrawk/postwave ) and using it to power a blog with career advice for software engineers called Don't Break Prod ( https://dontbreakprod.com/ ). Because the world needs more blogging tools and advice. Or maybe it just scratches my itch and it's fun to build.
https://github.com/dorkrawk/postwave
I have a little blogging engine that I wrote to scratch my own itch called Postwave. You write everything as flat files but you can interact with everything dynamically through a client library. It works for what I want to use it for.
Not really related to the article, but I always thought it was kind of quaint that TOML is "Tom's Obvious Minimal Language" (made by Tom Preston-Werner, one of the founders of GitHub).
Wow, I tried to solve a similar problem in a similar way (command line based progress tracker) with a small personal project called Trackstar: https://github.com/dorkrawk/trackstar but this is SO much nicer!
"What will they do when they hear opinions they’ve learned to shrink from? If they want to change the world, how will they learn to persuade people to join them?"
This seems like an important quote for those who are sad/disappointed/angry about the US election results.