“The most important invention in your lifetime is…”
It’s the smartphone, I think that’s hard to dispute. Name one other invention that hasn’t in some way been influenced, made possible by, ruined by the smartphone. There are important inventions in the field of medicine, conceptualisations that are inventions of social discourse, and of course other comparable technologies, but nothing changed the world like the smartphone. I would go as far as to say the internet was invented in 2007; that thing you and I used before 2007, that wasn’t the internet, that was an internet, not the definitive product that warped society around itself, mostly for the worse, in some ways for the better. The next few decades will in all likelihood see the successor to the smartphone emerge, and as a society, we need to decide if the Faustian bargain is worth it this time. I’ll give you a hint: if it’s any form of implant, the answer is a resounding no. If it’s external, flip a coin. Maybe a coin with two tails.
Starting to feel much more in control of my life. It’s funny, because there is a lot out of my hands right now, and much I need to do if I want to pass the first year, but I’m starting to feel a certain direction to my life is taking shape, a general and progressive reshaping of what stagnated for a long time, and began to improve when I started 1K. The legacy of the 5 year mark – coming up in September – is going to be the deliberate and methodical rewriting of my brain towards my goals, and I gotta say, it’s a nice feeling. I feel as if I am finally becoming the person I want to be.