The Eight Laws of Robotics Calmness:
- Technology should require the smallest possible amount of attention.
- Technology should inform and create calm.
- Technology should make use of the periphery.
- Technology should amplify the best of technology and the best of humanity.
- Technology can communicate, but doesn’t need to speak.
- Technology should work even when it fails.
- The right amount of technology is the minimum needed to solve the problem.
- Technology should respect social norms.
I’m a little suspicious about a certification body that’s paid for by producers, but it’s fine if they can make it work.
I have a work phone and personal phone and they both scream at the slightest news.
Newer app versions don’t heed the “fuck off and shut up” mode when I put the phones face down. So they get a time-out part-way through the day when I’ve had enough of the “every beep more jarring than every other beep” mentality: I throw them into the next room.
This calmer initiative sounds like a godsend.
I use my teams app on my work phone to notify me when I get dm’d while at work.
when I’m not at my desk I don’t hear it because the phone only comes with me if I have to go to location for work.
my personal phone only sends me notifications from my wife, email, and phone calls.
I only get phone calla from work for emergencies only, like “the building is on fire, help us!” emergencies.
You know they have “settings”, right?
Sorry; I thought I mentioned that.
Oh, that’s right: I did. Sorry again.
I’ve disabled notifications for everything except certain contacts. I was all about news notifications for a while, but that was obnoxious.