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This year someone I know was not doing well so I was trying to help them with something yet I wasn't really taught how to do this thing well myself.

Take for an example, maybe this person couldn't cook for themselves and I was tasked with cooking for them, although I hadn't been taught how to cook and have taught myself to do so by reading online and watching videos and through trial and error.

So I only have so much confidence with the skill I developed myself and the system I set up for myself, while this person's system was different than mine (say they were allergic to peanuts, so I would have needed to always be on the lookout for peanuts being secretly added to things, which I wouldn't have even thought about in my own system of cooking).

So I guess it's a question to me of how to 1. develop better life skills, 2. how to work other people's systems if you aren't aware of all of what their needs are and 3. how to identify and close gaps in your "life skills" skillset.

Any input would be appreciated

This is the third time in the last few months.

c/stoptech post: https://scored.co/c/StopTech/p/1ARdD8U9vG/

I was thinking about this, I thought the last major technological development before AI was the smartphone

It seems to have had a real chilling effect on people, they're afraid to make mistakes in public or do as much because they're always being watched and possibly recorded

Addictive content is served quickly on the phones and things like social media and dating apps became popularly consumed on phones, which have dramatically affected relationships and how people perceive themselves

So what overall impact do you think smartphones have had on us, how might we mitigate some of the damage done by phones, or what do you think of what will replace smartphone technology and how much worse it could be potentially (AR glasses, brain implants, etc.)?