Yes.
> have my phone tell me what to do next"
The phone is a tool. It doesn't tell me what to do.
> you are unable to mediate without the help of an app, start here, instead of pretending you are meditating just because some app tells you every step along the way.
Mindfulness and Buddhism is traditionally practiced in a teacher-student setting. Are they all pretending to meditate because they have a teacher telling them what to do every step of the way?
Your entire comment reeks of utter mindlessness. Maybe an app would help?
None of which is possible for an App to do, because an App isn’t aware.
This outsourcing of basic human awareness and community to tech is quite concerning and actively harmful to our mental health IMO.
You can even get an EEG reader for biofeedback meditation like Muse. Works well as long as you stay away from the Deepak Chopra stuff.
I've used analogue timers to determine when to get up from my session. Please explain the difference between an analogue timer and a digital one, for this purpose.
I wouldn't come to a tech site to air the counter-tech opinion and I wouldn't anticipate a fair and balanced response.
And yes, I sort of deliberately put this comment here to see how HN users react if their believes or their bussiness model are seemingly "attacked".