Feel Guilty About the Amount of Time You Spend on Your Phone? Here’s a Must Read

Salomé Gómez-Upegui
4 min readJan 25, 2019
Images by Georgia de Lotz on Unsplash

The first thing you should know is that you’re not alone. Overuse of technology is widespread, and there’s more than a few studies to prove it. Take for example a study that states 3% of American adults sleep with their phone in their hand. Or another that suggests 10% of teenagers in the UK check their phones at least 10 times during the night. Things are not great, and this mess is precisely why the work of Mindful Technology founder Liza Kindred is game-changing.

Mindful Technology is a company that believes “humans matter more than machines, technology should serve us, not the other way around, and the most meaningful connections are those between people, not devices.” The work they do is an inside job. Instead of working with consumers, they believe there’s a lot to be done in the development phase of technology, and so they help companies create human-centric products.

“ I think it’s important for people to start to understand that overuse of technology is not the consequence of a personal character flaw or a lack of willpower, technology is designed to be addictive and disruptive.”

Liza, who is also an experienced meditation teacher, began this venture after having worked for years in wearable tech helping clients build “disruptive devices.” “A lot of…

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Salomé Gómez-Upegui
Salomé Gómez-Upegui

Written by Salomé Gómez-Upegui

Colombian-American Writer. Fluent in Spanglish.

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