Digital Sapiens
Jack ProbertNavigating our digital world is hard. Technology isn't serving us as it should. Analysis, experiments & insight for helping us build a world where tech empowers, connects, and elevates our lives - not diminishes them.
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Reclaim Focus. Reclaim Your Life.
“I tried to live, but I got distracted” - Johann Hari, Lost Focus
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Introduction
Don’t you feel it?
Sensationalist headlines and clickbait news. Addictive short form videos. Incessant pings, notifications,...
Confronting Our Digital Dependence
“The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7”
Dr. Anna Lembke, Stanford Psychiatrist and author of Dopamine Addiction
Image: A typical Friday night in 2025
Introduction
If we want to build...
Disconnecting to Discover
To build a better future, you need to strip it back to basics first. To unearth where technology augments existence and where it doesn’t. To determine what will never be natural for us and what will but needs updating.
What better place to...
How The Attention Economy Redefined Our Existence
Two mornings, a world apart
1966
It’s summer. Your analogue alarm goes off. You have breakfast with your flatmates, rehashing last night’s antics. They turn on the radio - the Beach Boys are overly enthusiastically singing about ‘Goo...
Communication Woes: Separating Signal from Noise
Human Communication - The Bedrock of Our Existence
Communication has always been essential to our survival and evolution - more important than strength, speed, or individual intelligence.
It’s how we coordinated hunts, built alliances, s...
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Forging a better path for how we use technology. Analysis, experiments and insight for individuals, businesses, designers & builders to design a world where tech empowers, connects, and elevates our lives - not diminishes them.
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