After two decades working with technology, Jeff Guin experiments with reducing it at home. “E-ink thinking” becomes a way to ask a different digital-strategy question: not what else technology can do, but what is the minimum needed to support attention, reading, writing, and everyday life. The experiment strips away devices and notifications to test whether a quieter technological environment can create more space for deliberate thought instead of constant digital stimulus.
Category Archives: On a Personal Note
Dark times and leaps of faith
Looking back on a difficult period of professional and personal dislocation, Jeff Guin revisits a 2014 road trip that became a turning point. Returning to Louisiana provided enough distance to reconsider what he wanted, what he had outgrown, and where he might go next. The piece is less about a single career decision than about the role place, memory, family, and instinct can play when rational planning alone is no longer producing an answer.
You don’t have to be a King to find your voice
Inspired by The King’s Speech, Jeff Guin writes publicly about living with auditory-processing and speech challenges that shaped his childhood, communication style, and sense of confidence. Finding a name for the condition did not remove it, but it changed how he understood the effort required to communicate. The essay connects vulnerability with professional voice: speaking publicly can matter precisely because expression has never felt effortless or guaranteed.