I’m not anti-tech. I’m just tired. Tired of being optimized. Tired of tech that forgets we’re people, not data points. Slow tech isn’t about going offline. It’s about building tools that honor slowness, reflection, and our inner lives.

People hear Withering Gardens and think it’s about decay. But I named it not as a monument to death, but as an act of reclamation. To wither is not to fail. To wither is to rest. To return. To root.