Now that I’m in my 40s, I am officially Old™, which gives me license to be curmudgeonly. I take as much advantage of that right as I possibly can.

But I don’t think that my 2020 list of tech resolutions, which I’ve been formulating over the last three weeks, is actually as curmudgeonly as it might seem on first glance. Yes, many of the items are pitched as negatives, but that’s because we’ve awakened as a society to some of the ways that digital technology may inhibit rather than enhance life. I like to think of the list below as my attempt to make tech work for me rather than against me—to provide freedom, information, and entertainment without making life into a “content consumption” quest.

Here’s what I’m focused on this year; leave your own resolutions in the comments section.