The UN called it a strategic retreat
There is one world. There is no fallback position, no second planet held in reserve, no adult coming to fix it. Which leaves us. Tired, busy, washing still on the line, and the only ones actually here.
Big tech takes about two and a half hours of your attention a day and gives you nothing back but a flicker. We are taking one hour of it back a month, or five, or ten, and pointing it at something that is actually on fire.
The first goal
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Dopamine activists
A hundred people who have put a number and their name to it. That is the point at which this stops being an idea somebody had and starts being a thing that exists.
Not hours anybody promised.
How far this travels beyond the people who already know us.
A company or a council publishes what it is committing to for the next seven generations, not this financial year.
0 hours pledged so far. Every number on this page is real and starts at nought, which is where everything starts.
Pick a number of hours a month you can actually stand behind on a bad week, not a good one. One hour is a real answer. Ten is a real answer. It goes on the wall with your name against it.
Save this link. Open it on your phone, or in six weeks on a different laptop, and the wall knows you again. Anyone who has it can log acts as you, so keep it to yourself.
One email a month asking whether you actually did the thing. Unsubscribe in one click.
What you might do with them
See all twenty-four →Stuck for what to do with them
The hour is not the hard part. Deciding what to do with it is the hard part, so we already did that. Every one of these is real, specific, and finishable before the kettle goes cold twice. Ignore the lot and do your own thing if you would rather.
Log it whenever it happens. A Tuesday lunchtime is as good as a Sunday. Bring something back with you though, even if it is only a photo on your phone, because an hour with proof against it counts for more than an hour we all have to take on faith.
Make your pledge above first, then this opens up.
Everything you have logged
The wall
Every name, every hour, every bit of proof.