The iPod may represent a test of whether your own mind still comes first.

This relates to AI taking small daily acts of thinking off your hands.

Nobody defends this loss the way labor once fought automation. It just goes unnoticed.

Maybe you shouldn't throw away that old iPod.

A recent Harvard Gazette article on the "tech-lash" caught my attention. It was built around an interview with the analyst Sara Watson where she talked about people digging up vintage iPods and going back to flip phones, part of a broader turn toward what she called "grandma hobbies" like knitting.

Watson also used an emerging term, "friction-maxxing," where steps are deliberately reintroduced into a task to counteract technology designed to be frictionless. Further, she pointed to resistance to surveillance capitalism, to the inevitability framing tech companies keep selling us and to the sense that our devices were changed without our consent. She also ties it to the body and the tactile pleasure of a mechanical engagement.

All good points, and I don't think she's wrong. Watson's perspective........

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