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📩 Letter #45: 10 ways technology keeps us apart

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And how to come back together.

Dear Kate, Last week, I wrote a letter about the difficulty of being together. This week, I wanted to do some thinking about why that might be. I looked around at my neighborhood, my house, my day-to-day life, and I tried to notice all the little ways our modern world has been built for isolation and convenience rather than community. In so many ways, the things designed to “make our lives easier” come with short-term benefits and long-term consequences, indulging a silly conception of self-reliance and keeping us cozy in isolation without the necessity of community (or the sacrifices…

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