We all know that sitting for hours of screen time is bad, but can we fix it?

I think a lot of us don't realize how much pain we live in because of our interactions with computing.

Ultimately, it's a culture change.

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I have brittle-born disease, it's called Osteogenesis Imperfecta. And I grew up.

Everything would be fine for quite a while.

And then I would just randomly break an arm,

you know, doing something pretty minor.

Like, you know, I'd fall out of my wheelchair,

but other kids would not have broken their arm right and so you get this idea of the impermanence of life at a pretty young age if you have this disability because your life really goes dramatically one way or another in a blink of an eye.

But the funny thing is everybody is actually living in the same place

but we just don't acknowledge it.

And so I think that's where disability has taught me a lot about how we're all very finite beings.

I mean we all have areas we could work on and I don't feel like I'm a not compassionate person but I do feel like

That's something that I could be better at you know especially right now when you know as a disabled person who is taking COVID very seriously.

I mean we went on a drive up the North Shore of Lake Superior one day and a lot of people were out not wearing masks and like standing close together and I was like I am going to have to work on my own sense of compassion so that I don't leave this situation feeling bitter or angry at

you know whoever it is that's choosing to not follow the guidelines because it

does hurt but I don't want it to poison the way I feel about humanity in general.

You know, there's a real possibility for those kind of feelings to run away, and then you lose sight of just the fact that we are all

connected and we're all valuable and that includes people that I strongly disagree

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