I left a comment about this on HN the other day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17562306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17562306) - 8 months ago, I

I left a comment about this on HN the other day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17562306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17562306) - 8 months ago, I launched a product to serve the older population, blending old and new, called NanaGram (https://nanagram.co https://nanagram.co). We let you send printed photos to a loved one in the mail with just a text message. Older people like my late grandfather are some of the happiest I've ever met. I think one of their secrets is growing up in a more disconnected world. I've honed my ability to stay off the internet for long periods of time but this skill is just the default state for many older people and isn't a challenge they face. I didn't always struggle with internet addiction and remember life before and after the internet. Some of my most joyful moments in the past year have been visiting loved ones just after spending 2 or 3 days completely disconnected. There's a great book called Happiness is a Choice You Make about the "oldest old", people over the age of 85. I touched on in the book in this blog entry and expanded on some of the lessons I learned hanging out with my 94-year-old grandfather as often as possible over the last couple years: https://nanagram.co/blog/on-happiness-from-tirrell-cook https://nanagram.co/blog/on-happiness-from-tirrell-cook. My grandfather never learned how to internet but we did have a hilarious unboxing moment with the Amazon Echo this past December. He made it to a viral TV show and tried to negotiate for bitcoin as compensation. While it was very promising, we never truly got his Echo habit to stick as he and my grandmother kept pressing the wrong buttons. https://nanagram.co/blog/echo-show-unboxing https://nanagram.co/blog/echo-show-unboxing