The instrument audit

In the wake of Descartes and the Novum Organum, this exercise asks not that you use less but better: to subject your own use to the very method you expect of technology. You name the end a tool ought to serve, observe whether it truly serves it, and correct the use through more ingenuity rather than retreat. It is optimism carried to its end: not trusting blindly, but demanding of each use that it deliver what it promises.