About the newsletter 💌
“Tech Without Losing Your Soul” examines tech’s influence across sectors and geographies, the ethical dilemmas facing tech workers today, burnout and loneliness, and the possibilities for balancing our relationship to AI. The goal is to examine, process, and challenge unsustainable and exclusionary ideas about innovation and restore old/explore new concepts to help us find our way in a world of algorithms and bots.
You can expect a range of writing and interviews exploring timely analysis and lived experiences, delivered directly to your email. Recent essays have examined living through an AI takeover, the influence of algorithms on America’s healthcare horror show, and an interview with Monika Jiang, where we examine loneliness and AI companions.
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About the author ✍🏼
I’m Lauren Celenza, (she/they, SE-LEN-ZA). Views are my own.
I’m a software designer, writer, and advocate for equity and care in technology and its industry. My design work and essays have appeared in Fast Company, Forbes, NBC News, PBS News Hour, and In These Times. In 2022, I petitioned for the Silenced No More Act in Washington state, prohibiting employers from silencing workers on issues of discrimination, retaliation, and wage violations.
As a designer, I’ve led projects at Google Maps, Adobe, Code for America, and the World Resources Institute, designing tools for inclusive maps, accessible content creation, equitable tax systems, and land restoration. I've taught design and storytelling at conferences and universities across the globe, connecting with designers, writers, and entrepreneurs from over 40 countries.
I’ve also moderated live events for The Skin Deep, an Emmy Award-winning video series and creative studio, and UNFINISHED Festival in Europe, where I’ve interviewed a range of people: New York Times Modern Love editor Daniel Jones on love-hate in the digital age, visual artist and designer Dario Calmese on reimagining design, and award-winning Brazilian photographer-historian João Paulo Barbosa, on tech’s influence on the coldest regions of the world.
The finite nature of life and the infinite information around us makes our attention a remarkably powerful and rare thing, and I’m grateful that you’d consider giving this newsletter yours.
