Since the pandemic-induced “Great Pause” of 2020, I’ve been contemplating our relationship with our work, our selves, and our screens + digital technology.

I’m grateful to the people who invited me to engage with questions around these relationships and those who’ve explored them alongside me.

This mini-zine is my way of inviting more people to build awareness around what we’ve inherited from our culture.

I formulated these questions from my perspective as a compulsive and chronic scroller with a history of overidentifying with my work.

I still need to ask myself these questions. I haven’t transcended the distraction of my screens, the pressure of toxic productivity, or the tendency to over-identify with what I do to make money to get by.

And even while I've been aware of these harms and working towards change, it's been really hard. Cultural norms are powerful for a reason.

But maybe if more of us are asking the questions and giving less of ourselves to our screens and productivity, we'd feel less alone in going against the grain.

So, the last page of the zine invites readers to "take time with these questions. Discuss them with others. (And/or with me)". (That's a standing invitation!)