It’s Time for Digital Products to Start Empowering Us

We’re accepting utility in exchange for disempowerment. It’s not a fair trade.

Jesse Weaver
The Startup
Published in
7 min readFeb 25, 2019

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The digital world, as we’ve designed it, is draining us. The products and services we use are like needy friends: desperate and demanding. Yet we can’t step away. We’re in a codependent relationship. Our products never seem to have enough, and…

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Jesse Weaver
The Startup

CoFounder and CEO of Design Like You Mean It | Humane Tech Evangelist | Designer