There’s a moment in The Good Place where our protagonist Eleanor chooses from a limitless array of frozen yogurt flavours, finally landing on Fully Charged Cell Phone Battery. “This really is satisfying.” she proclaims with a nod.
It’s an incredible bit of social commentary, pointing directly at where we are in place and time. Of course, as with all humor, the joke’s only funny if you’re in on it.
Sadly, most of us are.
In the paragraphs that follow I’ll outline why our rampant addiction to devices is a problem but first I need to go plug in my
Get Up Eight 
You have managed to whet our appetite with this slice. We’ll be here for more tomorrow only because most of us are guilty of this ‘addiction to devices’.
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More and more I just want to unplug and go back to a simpler time. I get it… but I wish I didn’t have to.
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You are a very clever writer. Where have you been all these years that the slicing challenge has been taking place?!?!? I can tell, too, that you’re just getting started!!!
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My colleagues raved about the challenge for a couple years and here I am! Glad to be here. 🙂
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Your writing is very compelling. I should use your slices to show my students how to connect titles and writing to hook in their readers. You definitely make me want to keep reading.
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I’m a fan of 15th century skills and will keep reading. We are up for a good debate.
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