Meredith Klein of Meredith and the Media interviewed TechCrunch senior writer Amanda Silberling about her job.
Here is an excerpt:
As senior writer at TechCrunch, you write features and news about technology and the people it impacts. What’s driving your coverage?
- I’m lucky that I’m in a position where I have a lot of freedom to follow what I’m personally interested in. For example, the past couple of months, I’ve been especially interested in movements toward reducing screen time and how we’ve all sort of culturally accepted that we want to be on our phones less, but it feels so impossible. I’ve been trying out flip phones and different iPhone alternatives, or things like the Brick, which bricks your phone.
- I wrote a piece about “slow tech.” Slow tech is basically the idea of having a more deliberate relationship with technology, embracing older devices that force you to have a bit more friction in how we use those devices. The example I opened the story with was how Tony Fadell, who created the iPod, walked into a subway station and saw an advertisement for the iPod Shuffle, which is super tiny, doesn’t have a screen, and you can’t even select what song to play. A company was advertising that because it’s trendy again. People are trying to simplify their experiences with technology, which is really fascinating. Everything has become so easily accessible on our phones that moving away from screens and feeling a bit more analog is something that young people, especially, are really interested in. I’ve been writing a lot of stories around people’s relationships with their phones and their screens, and how that’s changing.
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