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Perhaps we don't need an app to meditate? Does everything need to have a tie to tech and the latest gizmo?

>Does everything need to have a tie to tech and the latest gizmo?

add ties to cloud , and wearables, and 24x7 tracking, and some motivational quote notifications to keep the user more connected. and then sell data to advertisers.

you forgot blockchain.

and Quantum Computing

and AI

How else can you monetize meditation at scale?

So there's too much tech and people should just stop? It's not that I disagree, I just don't think you're adding anything interesting to that debate. And you are shitting on someone's work.

That's...not what they said

Well they didn’t really say anything, is my point. Just a shallow dismissal of an individual’s work.

While I am not a fan of meditation, there is a large variety and some of them can definitely benefit from an app - e.g. guided meditation, meditation for specific time intervals etc.

If you're not a fan of meditation how can you speak to the benefits of different techniques?

I'm not a fan of cooking either but I can recognize when a tool can be beneficial for it.

No, you can't. If you don't cook you will not understand the differences of the various types of knifes, forks, spoons...

Not a fan of cooking != doesn't cook

I'm not really a fan of cooking either but I still do it most days. It is possible to know something about a thing, have experience of a thing, have some useful insight into tools that are useful for it, all without enjoying said thing.

Yes, this is a phenomena the internet amplified: unknowledgeable people confident that the little they know is already above-intermediary level.

You have to be kidding? Literally nobody here is claiming that their knowledge is above-intermediary level. How is it that you're misinterpreting what people are actually saying so badly?

Are you doing so deliberately?

Do you not perceive the acute irony of what you've just said in the face of the fact that you have shown such a basic misunderstanding of the comments to which you've responded, whether deliberately or otherwise?

If you think my understanding of what he said is the same as he claiming that he knows what is better for cooking without liking it I have nothing to say to you.

Sure, and I might not understand which app would be best here but I can tell an app can be helpful just like I can tell that a spray bottle can be useful in cooking even if I can't tell which would be the very best one or which cooking styles it will benefit the most.

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