Dear readers and customers,

it’s better at the moment to be offline than online.

This will be the case for at least until January 2029.

It’s not good for your health to be online at the moment.

There’s also more important stuff to do in your own life, won’t you agree?

Why not plant some plants in the meantime and watch them grow? These could be small trees by then.

Or maybe there’s this one book you want to read for months? Give it a go! If it’s interesting, check for some more in your local library.

Set back your Email collector schedule to at least 1 hour. Or even better: 24 hours, if you can. What is important today will be surely tomorrow too. All the other stuff can wait. Or goes directly to the recycling bin.

Buy a “dumbphone” and lock away your “smartphone”. Work yourself up, if you can’t live without: one day, two days. Then a week, then two. And so on. Get your life back, bit by bit. It’s worth it.

Learn a new language. And no, we don’t mean a programming language.

Delete your “social media”. Communicate and make friends for real.

Become active in local communities: help clean your block or village. Be a nanny. Pet dogs or cats – or get one yourself. Feed the ravens. Talk to your neighbour. Clean your windows. Or help others clean theirs because they are unable to do so.

Try some sports. Hate it, drop out. Try again and find something new. Repeat.

Sleep more and consume less caffeine, nicotine or junk food. Learn to cook!

Try to spend less money.

Try less shopping.

Ever thought about moving to Portugal permanently?

No, we are not joking. These are not funny times. See it as a warning. All will go to sh*t the next 25 years if all unfolds what’s constantly unwrapping the last 5 years alone. Spending this time in front of a screen is the worst you can do at the moment.

And yes, we know this will cut ourselves off too. In the end it’s business what we do but we won’t be here anymore if there’s no future for us all. Who needs a website or an app if it’s diffcult to pay rent or to afford food? Yeah, exactly.

And we feel it already. There’s no business case needed for our current times. But we will find ways. Like we always did. It will just be different. And why should it be for the worse, right? Exactly.

Life became unbareable, the speed alone. It’s no use to keep up, it’s no alternative to give up. As human beings, we are deeply rooted in nature and its cycles. Time to take back what was taken from us. And inspiration will come in no time.

You can do it! You are worth it!

Let’s just start,
your aethyx staff