Jia Tolentino

After some quick and intense travels, it is nice to be back in my apartment, where the noise levels are minimal, the bandwidth is blazing fast, and I have time and space to organize my thoughts.

For the past ten days (the entirety of my trip), I have been thinking about our increasingly complex and complicated relationship with technology — what it brings and what it subtracts from our society and ourselves. These are the effects of both choices we make and the choices imposed upon us by others who work at technology companies. These humans are driven by the same forces as the rest of us: the desire to take care of their families, become financially secure, and like everyone else, get ahead. Many have big bills to pay, which undoubtedly factor into the shitty decisions they knowingly make. You know those people. They work for companies like Juul