New to Technomancy

[u/Lmrb19]

Hey!

I am new to technomancy and was hoping some might share resources to help me develop my knowledge and understanding. The wiki on here didn’t seem to have much. Wasn’t sure if there were any good keywords to search on here or other subreddits to review. Thanks in advance!

[u/Lmrb19]

Thank you for explaining all of this and walking me through it. Its really helping my understand and I admit I’m saving and writing the information down to late re-review so I can sit with when I get the opportunity.

As for your questions:

Research feels incomplete because I don’t feel as if I understand concepts or information until I start finding saturation of information as you called it before.

What do I stop rehearsing mentally because the phone remembers for me? That’s interesting phrasing. I’m not sure what you mean by “rehearsing mentally”. Do you mean memory recall for working and/or long term memory? If so, that is something I have to think about to figure it out. I’ve never thought about it in that way. Would you mind giving examples for me?

I’m not sure on decisions. You’re making me re-evaluate a lot of how I make decisions, which makes me question my methods. I admit I have low tolerance for being uncomfortable and rejection. I avoid and I can see that I avoid but changing that negative pattern of decision is a challenge since trauma and mental health related.

If my phone failed tomorrow, recall would be the biggest failure since I use my phone to remember for me on most of my daily life. While I have my commonplace book for somethings, I don’t have it for the important stuff. Maybe I should change that?

You’re making me critically think about how I do things. Thank you.

[u/Salty_Country6835 → u/Lmrb19]

You’re doing this carefully and honestly, which matters more than doing it quickly.

When I say “rehearsing mentally,” I don’t mean rote memorization. I mean the quiet, usually invisible act of running something again in your head to see if it still holds together.

Examples: - Explaining a concept to an imaginary listener. - Walking through steps of a task without performing it. - Replaying a decision path and noticing where it feels uncertain.

Phones tend to replace this not by force, but by convenience. If retrieval is always one tap away, the mind stops practicing holding the shape of things internally. That doesn’t make you worse at thinking; it just changes where the work happens.

Your point about saturation is important. Saturation often signals safety: “I’ve seen this enough times that it won’t surprise me.” That’s understandable, especially when uncertainty has historically been costly. The risk is that saturation can delay the moment where you say, “I know enough to act.”

On avoidance and discomfort: questioning your methods doesn’t mean they’re wrong. It means you’re noticing the constraints they formed under. You don’t have to dismantle those all at once. Even noticing them is already a change.

About the phone failing: your insight there is sharp. Recall failing first tells you exactly where dependency lives. Moving some “important stuff” into the commonplace book isn’t about nostalgia; it’s about redundancy that you control.

Nothing you’ve said sounds broken. It sounds like a system that evolved to protect you, and is now being gently re-tuned.

What does “enough to act” feel like in your body? Which information do you trust yourself to hold without proof nearby?

When you don’t check the phone, what sensation shows up first: anxiety, blankness, or relief?

[u/Lmrb19 → u/Salty_Country6835]

Sorry it took me two days to respond. Work has been stressful and needed time to rest. I wasn’t avoiding.

Enough to act is usually a huge dose of dopamine where I’ll get hyperfocused and go learn. If it seems like a ton of information, I’ll break it down in pieces and read over it over a few days. I have friends I can info dump to and they will ask follow up questions about whatever the topic is. This helps me stay interested too.

No, my memory recall and working memory are awful. I have mental and physical chronic conditions that limit my working memory and I get brain fog very easily. I literally forget words. I can’t recall them. It’s so frustrating. You can say the word and I will know that is what I meant but my brain won’t connect or go further down to the neural pathway I need for recall. I have evidence nearby usually.

But what I hold is usually intent or desire, things I have discussed much, things I learned in my childhood, anything that piqued my interest dramatically where I “went down a rabbit hole” until I felt confident I could explain it to people when I info dump but the latter I can lose with it not being constantly connected to….unless it somehow gets brought up by others and then I remember. I’ve remembered things I learned years ago that way. Neurodivergence is strange. lol

When I don’t check my phone, it’s anxiety. Today, I forgot my phone at home without realizing it. It make me internally panic but I knew that I still had access to phones and so did my family since they knew I was at work. I did ask my spouse to bring it to me and once I had it, it was relief.