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Noting the insidious side effects of more efficient technology, both of the bullet journals vs TeuxDeux, written vs typed, car vs bicycle — doing something for the speed sake of convenience/efficiency leads to this compulsion to further optimize, to continue to automatic reflexive behavior, the downward spiral of trying to do/go more places — instead of stepping back and trying to understand why or what we are in a rush to do and if that’s something we even need to be in a rush to do.

I feel this pressure on my rides, like I’m an inconvenience to others (in cars) — feeling increasingly like an outlier in this supercharged world. It’s so abundantly clear how much technology changes how we interact with the world and each other.

How can I encapsulate this tension I’m noticing into a story? Supercharged tech: blindly hurtling forward without consideration of where we’re going or how we’ll land.