A Tech Worker's Journey from Digital Overload to Human Connection Maya Ortiz is drowning in notifications. A brilliant engineer at a Silicon Valley ad-tech giant, she spends her days optimizing algorithms that hijack human attention-until a power outage, a dying houseplant, and seventeen missed calls from her dying father force her to confront the cost of living in perpetual "loading screen" mode. - A meditation on grief in the age of infinite scroll- A rebellion against the attention economy- A love letter to analog life When Maya abandons her smartphone and ventures into Brooklyn's analog underground-guided by a rogue e-waste artist, a breathwork nurse, and her father's handwritten journal-she begins to debug her own consciousness. From candlelit coding sessions to meteor showers under dark skies, she discovers that presence is the ultimate algorithm. Perfect for fans of: Klara and the Sun (literary AI themes)The Circle (tech dystopia with heart)How to Do Nothing (anti-capitalist mindfulness)"A masterpiece for the burnt-out generation." - Early reviewer