“I realized I was letting technology make decisions for me.”
GPS tells you where to turn. The algorithm tells you what to watch. Autocomplete finishes your sentences. Recommendations tell you what to buy. At some point, you stopped choosing and started following. The realization is uncomfortable because it reveals how much agency you'd already surrendered without noticing. But noticing is the turn. Now you choose again.
Your Practice
Pick one decision today that you normally outsource to technology — what to eat, where to go, what to watch — and make it yourself. No algorithm, no recommendation engine, no autoplay. Just you. Remember what your own judgment feels like. Then do it again tomorrow.
The Architects
“Man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment that he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.”