How Important is Love and Family in your Life?
Then why do you neglect it?
Admit it you take it for granted — whether that’s the people that care about you or those that you go home to
Each of us works our tails of at work but how much of our happiness comes from our 9–5? How hard do we work on the things that give us the most happiness? The people who care about us most, our family, friends and partners.
When you are sick does your company check on you or clean up the mess?
And then there is {insert online dating site}
We put a lot of effort into meeting people, how much do we put in to helping them stay? How much time do we spend cultivating love and relationships once they are established in our lives?
How do we keep the fire burning?
Not just on our love life but our family and friends — how do we ensure they feel valued and loved and like they matter to us? How can we assure they feel appreciated and treasured.
With the way the world is going we are going to need to invest more time in relationships. If technology really is going to destroy jobs meaning in life must come from the family and friends we have. We must prioritise human relationships where we can feel loved and that we have purpose.
I know because this was the biggest problem in my life
Technology is criticised but we need to look at it differently.
It’s not how smart we make AI its how smart AI can make us
It’s how technology can be embraced to make us better friends, siblings, offspring and lovers.
We must realise that people are what give us meaning.
We must see that relationships are what give us purpose.
We must see that love is what makes us human.
Anything that can mediate these relationships and improve them must be embraced.
The beauty is that it’s not about changing as a person, it can simply be about changing processes and removing the onus of responsibility to remember everything yourself. Neglect doesn’t occur purposefully, it happens because there is a list of competing demands for our attention.
Outsourcing responsibility to technology makes sure you never forget
That might be flowers for your partner.
A picture of the family to your parents.
Or you and your friends favourite movie sent to them on DVD.
It might be a personalised hand-written note, a phone call or a video call.
If you never take advantage of the people you care about they will never feel forgotten
You still have to act but every other step of the process is taken care of for you.
To overcome this problem I have built a product called Ember.
Several companies find ways to connect you with new people to form new relationships — none help you connect with the people you already love
Ember aims to improve the relationships you already have by ensuring you dedicate yourself appropriately.
The beta Product is in its final development stages, I’d love to connect with anyone who’d like to test the app
