All the Smart Intrusions: Death by a Thousand Cuts

We can’t pretend it’s okay when it’s not

Jodi Barnes, PhD
6 min readNov 1, 2019

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This is not about Taylor Swift’s song. This is about living with electronic devices, motivated by yet another unsolicited email.

This one isn’t so bad: Photos of Taipai, Dubrovnik, San Francisco skylines… I linger on Cape Town because half of the frame is mountains. Inexplicably, I…

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Jodi Barnes, PhD

Writer and Collaborator-in-Chief of https://www.14wordsforlove.com where small acts of writing, art and conversation create multicultural connections for good.