Reclaiming a slower, messier and deeply human life

Smart technology has made life frictionless, saved us time, but why do I feel like something's missing?

The image above came across my substack feed yesterday and it gave me a BIG YES. When I saw it, I had just been discussing with my fiancé how I love the buttons and knobs in our car, and groan every time the bluetooth connection fails on our stereo head unit (which was installed to “improve” the car experience).

We started reminiscing about how we miss…