Take out a piece of paper and draw a sketch of what you can see. You will notice more than you ever would by taking a photograph.
Sketching could easily fall into two categories in my collection of analogue skills: Remembering Things and Spending Time Alone.
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There’s a gap between certainty and doubt, and that is being happy not knowing. In this gap is space for discovery, serendipity, delight and the opportunity to grow confidence that you have everything you need.
I see the ability to be happy not knowing as a keystone analogue skill that supports other analogue skills and behaviours. Not knowing the weather, what’s on at the cinema, what your friends are doing, the headlines, what’s on TV, the fastest way to get there. Once we can wean ourselves off this need for certainty, we can become less dependent on our devices and more confident in encountering the world as we find it.
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