Microprocessing

Now Is the Time to Bring Back Away Messages

Life is totally online — we need ways to politely disconnect

Angela Lashbrook
Debugger
Published in
8 min readSep 9, 2020

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I spend most Thursdays heads down writing. The task is one that, at least for me, requires absolute focus, a quality that I have to essentially beg some corner of my brain to extend to me for a few hours. This usually fails, making the…

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Angela Lashbrook
Debugger

I’m a columnist for OneZero, where I write about the intersection of health & tech. Also seen at Elemental, The Atlantic, VICE, and Vox. Brooklyn, NY.