About

Hey, you can call me Z.

I’m sick of Tech taking over my, and our, lives. So I decided to create what I coined (it’s probably not entirely original) the Tech diet. Here’s a general overview of what I’ve decided to describe it as:

The Tech Diet is a concept of structuring your life, in a way that works for you, to help you manage and keep under your control, your usage of tech (phones, laptops, TVs, social media, smart watches, etc.), in a healthy way. While most of the tech management advice you see is mostly (usually only) about reducing your tech “footprint,” the Tech Diet is not necessarily entirely reductive - i.e. there could be cases, though probably not very common, where someone might actually benefit from adding a particular piece of tech they were not using before. The point being, this “diet” is not by default meant to deprive you of Tech, it is meant to balance and fine-tune what Tech you use on a general basis. Lastly, and most importantly, as with food diets: there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Also in keeping with food diets, it should be sustainable; you should be able to continue it, basically, indefinitely. Think the difference between a holistic, nutrition-based approach to healthy foods and exercise, as opposed to “fad” diets like Atkins/Keto, Carnivore, “eat less than 1000 calories a day,” and so on, all of which promote an eating regimen that is difficult to follow long term — and in some cases damaging to follow long term.

Lastly, and most importantly, as with food diets: there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Also in keeping with food diets, it should be sustainable; you should be able to continue it, basically, indefinitely. Think the difference between a holistic, nutrition-based approach to healthy foods and exercise, as opposed to “fad” diets like Atkins/Keto, Carnivore, “eat less than 1000 calories a day,” and so on, all of which promote an eating regimen that is difficult to follow long term — and in some cases damaging to follow long term.