{"id":259103,"date":"2020-07-31T05:43:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=259103"},"modified":"2020-07-31T14:07:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T21:07:56","slug":"why-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/31\/why-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Technology?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technology as a means to an end, not the end in itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Be more interested in your personal end-game, rather than being interested in tech for tech&#8217;s sake. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Don&#8217;t fetishize and lust after gadgets and new technology for the sake of it. Think deep. Philosophy. Ask yourself *<a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/why\">WHY<\/a>?* and keep asking yourself *<a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/why\">WHY<\/a>?* indefinitely until you gain a deeper truth *<a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/why\">WHY<\/a>* you want the tech in the first place and for what end-goal?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, we don&#8217;t want new cameras for the sake of it, we want new cameras because we are currently lacking inspiration and motivation to go out and <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/31\/how-to-shoot-new-photos\/\">shoot new photos<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology as a means to an end, not the end in itself. Which means: Be more interested in your personal end-game, rather than being interested in tech for tech&#8217;s sake. In other words: Don&#8217;t fetishize and lust after gadgets and new technology for the sake of it. Think deep. Philosophy. Ask yourself *WHY?* and keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/the-zen-of-ERIC-icon-png.png?fit=2048%2C2048&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259107,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259103\/revisions\/259107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}