Reimagine Your Relationship With Technology

How and when when use technology is within our power. We can wield it as a tool for better quality of life. We can also just turn it off.

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Technology gets a lot of bad press these days, some of which is well deserved. Big tech companies don’t always appear to respect privacy, and many of us are addicted to using our phones.

However, let’s not forget that we can decide when to pick up these tools and how to use them. It would be a big step to shift the conversation away from thinking of ourselves as victims of change and to begin thinking of how we can use these tools to better ourselves and our communities. Technology is often a vehicle for passive consumption, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

4 Ways to Leverage Tech

I‘ll highlight a few simple ways to use technology to build ourselves up rather than merely consume. Instead of focusing on advanced techniques requiring special skills and training, I’ll start with the ways most of us can begin creating today.