{"id":14953,"date":"2019-01-02T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2019\/01\/02\/stepping-into-empty-spaces\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:32","slug":"stepping-into-empty-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2019\/01\/02\/stepping-into-empty-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping into Empty Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read my first anti-anti-technology piece on <em>Wired<\/em> this morning (tl;dr \u201cI switched to a flip-phone and hated it\u201d). It had nothing enlightening to say, feeling like it was written by a young person whose friends all wanted him to do digital things so he abandoned the exercise for them.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s always the trend, though: one looks inspired when saying something contrary. Now that there\u2019s a movement toward questioning the prevalence of technology in our lives and suggesting we increase our analogue-time, of course the smarter-than-though naysayer line will be \u201cMeh, technology is fun and useful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it is. But if we pay attention, we all feel this other thing in our gut, this heaviness, a malignant brain-food hangover, and that\u2019s not going away.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I want to invest in my analogue life this year. I was doing really well there for a while, listening to music and jamming out in my head, drawing for myself when I had spare time, but over the holidays I fell back sometimes \u2014 not always \u2014 into a pattern of escaping into the digital, of not knowing what to do with free time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s most difficult when I don\u2019t have a lot of spare time, when a small space of time opens up in-between other commitments, and changing gears quickly would be a challenge. The solution may be to figure out beforehand what else I could do (both work and play), so I\u2019m not entering an empty space and trying to find direction at the same time.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read my first anti-anti-technology piece on Wired this morning (tl;dr \u201cI switched to a flip-phone and hated it\u201d). It had nothing enlightening to say, feeling like it was written by a young person whose friends all wanted him to do digital things so he abandoned the exercise for them. That\u2019s always the trend, though: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}