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A year later: is the tide finally turning on Big Tech?
A lot has happened in a year. The landscape has changed considerably from where we were 12 months ago. A year ago, it really felt as though we were pushing shit up a hill. There was a sense that this was simply how things were going to be: social media would continue to expand into our lives, our children would continue to be exposed to it, and there was very little anyone could do because Big Tech was simply too powerful to challenge. But that is beginning to change. In Janu

vanessa mchardy
Sep 104 min read


The year I got my attention back
What I learnt from my seven day challenge to reset my smartphone habits. Last year was the inaugural launch of the Spring Screen Break. Initially, I was going to ditch my smartphone altogether and replace it with a dumb phone, but in reality that wasn’t going to work for me. Instead, I completely dumbed down my smartphone so that it became, quite literally, a phone and a camera. The first thing I noticed almost immediately was how much better I slept. When we consider how imp

vanessa mchardy
Sep 104 min read


It is up to us, no-one is coming
In the last week, our children have seen content that most adults haven’t seen. They saw live feed of a man being shot and bleeding to...

vanessa mchardy
Sep 16, 20254 min read


Spring Screen Break: Reset Your Digital Life to Reflect How You Want to Live
Spring is the season of renewal—and what better time to reset your relationship with technology?

vanessa mchardy
Jun 11, 20252 min read
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