Going Off-Grid
There's a moment that hits a lot of people in fast1paced tech jobs. You're sitting in front of three monitors, eight Slackchannels are on fire, PagerDuty is glaring at you like a smoke alarm, and a totally reasonable thought pops into your head:"What if I just threw my phone in a lake and learned to whittle?"You're not broken. You're normal. And there's research behind that urge to go "low-tech" or even "off-grid" outside of work,especially around technostress, digital overload, and the way mode
There's a moment that hits a lot of people in fast1paced tech jobs. You're sitting in front of three monitors, eight Slack
channels are on fire, PagerDuty is glaring at you like a smoke alarm, and a totally reasonable thought pops into your head:
"What if I just threw my phone in a lake and learned to whittle?"
You're not broken. You're normal. And there's research behind that urge to go "low-tech" or even "off-grid" outside of work,
especially around technostress, digital overload, and the way modern work bleeds into your health.
The modern digital workplace is basically a high‑speed stress factory with really nice monitors.
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