About Us — The Scrolling Dead
The Scrolling Dead isn’t your typical tech site. We’re not here to convince you to buy another gadget you don’t need, or to pretend that staring at screens all day is somehow “empowering.” We’re a group of people who live and work in tech, who’ve spent way too much of our lives online, and who are just trying to figure out what it means to stay human in a world that runs on algorithms. We’re not anti-technology — we all rely on it — but we are anti-bullshit. The Scrolling Dead exists because someone had to start saying out loud what everyone else was already thinking: technology has taken over our lives, and maybe that’s not the win Silicon Valley wants us to believe it is.
It all started with Keith, a developer from Seattle who spends his days writing code and his nights doomscrolling. He was one of those early internet kids — building websites at twelve, dreaming of changing the world — and now he just wants to make it through a workday without Slack, Discord, and six notifications interrupting him mid-thought. Keith’s the sarcastic conscience of this place. He writes about the absurdities of digital life with equal parts cynicism and self-awareness because, as he puts it, “I’m part of the problem too.”
Then there’s Julie, our resident social media survivor. She works as a social media manager in Austin, which means she gets paid to be online professionally and still ends up doomscrolling for free afterward. Julie’s writing comes from deep inside the machine — she’s seen how engagement gets manufactured, how algorithms manipulate emotion, how fake everything can feel. Her tone is sharp, funny, and sometimes painfully honest about the fact that none of us are really in control of the feeds we think we curate.
Brenda keeps us grounded in reality. She’s a high school teacher from Minneapolis and a mom of two teenagers, which means she’s fighting the screen addiction battle on two fronts — in her classroom and at home. Brenda’s pieces capture what it feels like to parent and teach in a world where kids live their entire lives online. She’s not a tech expert; she’s a witness. Her articles hit home because she’s the one asking the questions a lot of us avoid: what are we doing to ourselves, and to our kids, with all this screen time?
Paul brings the perspective of someone who didn’t grow up with technology but had to adapt to it mid-career. He’s an accountant in Chicago who remembers when “the cloud” was just weather and memos came on paper. Now everything he does is behind a screen, and every year there’s another app or platform to learn. Paul writes about the quiet exhaustion of trying to keep up, of being good at your job but bad at technology, and the weird mix of pride and frustration that comes with that. His voice reminds us that not everyone wants constant innovation — some of us just want things to work.
And then there’s Rachel, our youngest writer and possibly the most existentially over-it of the group. She’s a 24-year-old freelance designer in Brooklyn, part of the generation that’s never known life without WiFi. Rachel’s essays are half confession, half critique — the voice of someone who’s both completely dependent on technology and quietly horrified by it. She writes about growing up online, burnout before thirty, and the weird mix of irony and despair that defines Gen Z’s relationship with the internet.
Together, we make up The Scrolling Dead — a mix of burnt-out developers, weary parents, overworked marketers, and cynical digital natives who somehow still believe the internet could be better. We don’t agree on everything. Keith thinks digital detoxes are pointless. Julie keeps reinstalling Instagram “for work.” Brenda still prints her lesson plans. Paul refuses to use password managers after one bad experience. And Rachel? She’s perpetually one notification away from deleting every app she owns. But the arguments, the contradictions, the overlap between frustration and fascination — that’s what makes the site what it is.
What you’ll find here isn’t the usual tech hype. We don’t do product rankings, we don’t chase traffic with empty “best apps of 2025” lists, and we definitely don’t believe the metaverse is the future of anything. What we do is tell the truth about how technology actually feels to use — the fatigue, the dependency, the absurdity, the little moments of awe that still manage to sneak through. We write about the everyday digital experience from the inside — the good, the bad, and the algorithmically optimized.
The Scrolling Dead is for anyone who loves technology but also kind of hates it. For the developer who can’t stop checking Stack Overflow at midnight. For the parent wondering if their kid will ever look up from their phone. For the freelancer who spends more time maintaining their “personal brand” than actually doing work. For the Gen Xer who just wants to understand why their phone keeps updating itself. For the Gen Zer who’s trying to figure out how to exist online without losing their mind.
We don’t have solutions — just stories, humor, and a collective sigh about how weird everything’s gotten. We’re not here to preach about quitting social media or moving to the woods. We’re here to acknowledge the messy reality that we’re all stuck in: we can’t disconnect, but we can at least be honest about what constant connection is doing to us.
The Scrolling Dead is part therapy, part tech commentary, part digital group chat that got out of hand. Whether you’re laughing at the absurdity of your daily screen time report or quietly panicking about what it says, you’ll probably find something here that hits uncomfortably close to home.
If you ever want to reach out — to share a story, pitch an idea, or just vent about your phone listening to you again — drop us a line at [email protected]. Someone will answer, eventually. Probably after checking a few notifications first.