Being Active Isn’t Enough

Active use protects your cognitive function better than passive use. It does nothing to protect you from the manipulation itself.

You can be fully engaged, thinking hard, participating, and still be manipulated by a system that’s learning your tastes to sell you back a more limited version of the world, and still not know that the group you trust exists to harvest your attention.

Recognizing how tech capture works is the other half of what you need in order to maintain your mental and emotional agency. I work through it with clients one on one. We go over all the ways the system is designed to manipulate us beneath our awareness, and then we build a plan just for you, to make sure you’re getting everything you want out of it without it using you.