Donald Roman

As a result most of today’s digital products and services are driven by consumption and the promise of comfort. Based on the problematic idea of infinite growth, many of them ruin our living environment, damage our social cohesion (how come “disruptive” has become a positive term?), dumb us down and confuse us while things around us get “smarter”.

The activists, entrepreneurs, advocates, designers, and organizers that I admire most these days are up for that kind of investment. They seem to lean in to systemic complexity with a kind of idealistic sobriety.

…arenting and “natural consequences” has led modern moms and dads away from one of the most powerful tools in the parenting arsenal: the threat. As in any profession that requires people to work closely wit…