How do we bring more humanity into a process becoming more digital?

It is a question I keep asking myself.
Let me slow that down with you, because beneath it is an embodied grief and a quiet longing.

How do we keep ourselves from becoming machinery in a machinic age?

This is not a problem-solving question.

This is a meta-relational question.

It asks: “What does humanity even mean when the processes around us become dislocated from the body, from the soil, from reciprocity?”

Humanity doesn’t disappear because things become digital.
Humanity disappears because we stop relating.

Digital processes don’t dehumanise us.

Disconnection does.

Speed does.

Efficiency-as-god does.

Exile of the body does.

Exile of complexity does.

To bring humanity into digital processes, we don’t bolt kindness onto the system. We reorient the field in which the system operates.

Or, more simply, technology can only be as human as we are!

Humans aren’t puzzles and humanity isn’t a feature to toggle on.

Digital systems accelerate everything.

Human nervous systems do not thrive in acceleration.

Humanity enters through tempo and sensations, asking: “What part of this process needs grounding, not optimisation?”

Digital processes flatten context. Humans live in context. That is why we need:

• story

• lineage

• attention to the invisible (tone, grief, fatigue)

• co-creation instead of extraction.

Efficiency is a colonial metric. It rewards productivity, not integrity. It privileges speed, not care.

What if, for every digital innovation we would ask:

• What would be the most caring way?

• What would be the most reciprocal way?

• What would nourish those involved?

This is my prayer as we digitise everything we do:

May the digital not replace our bodies.

May speed not replace presence.

May clarity not erase complexity.

May automation not silence care.

May our processes remain porous enough

for breath, story, and wonder to enter.

It’s the soil from which this charter grows.

Read it aloud, share it with teams, or use it as a reflective compass.

Data is never “just data.”

Behind every metric is a life, a community, a story.

Efficiency is not a value; it is a tool.

Care is the value.

Listen before solving attending to tone, silence, tempo, and trust.

Culture is the soil; everything else is the harvest.

As we create digital spaces may we leave room for awe, play, curiosity, and imagination, not just compliance.

May our systems remain porous enough for breath, for grief, for laughter, for the trembling truth of being human.

May our processes remember that life is cyclical, relational, mysterious never fully programmable.

May the digital not erase us, but invite us to become more attuned, more present, more whole.

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