Hicozijerzu: A New Philosophy of Living in the Age of Technology

If you’ve come across the phrase “hicozijerzu,” you might be thinking it’s just another obscure term. I see it a bit differently as a lens for understanding the way we think about our connection to technology. In this article, I define hicozijerzu as an approach to practical philosophy that combines the pursuit of knowledge with limits, experimenting in the pursuit of ethics, and ease of use by focusing on. My goal is to help you utilize the tools that you enjoy, but not let them stealthily use you.

Understanding Hicozijerzu

Hicozijerzu is a straightforward concept that has three components three parts: presence, prudence, and play.

The Power of Attention: Your Main Asset

• Choose your window of focus. Select between two to three blocks per day to ensure you can protect your deep work and block all other distractions.
• Learn to use “single-channel modes.” When you are researching, make sure you have one tab open as well as a notes app. When you chat, shut down your docs while you write, switch off chat.
• Monitor your attentional drift. Each time you switch contexts or mark your note. Recheck the tally at the end of the day to find out which areas of your attention are leaking.

Prudence Safety Privacy, Boundaries, and Safety

• Audit permissions. Verify apps’ access to the cameras, microphones, locations, and contacts every quarter.
• Set the default to only minimal data. Make use of privacy-friendly search, switch off personalization of ads, and use local-first apps for notes that are sensitive.
• Staged adoption is a good practice. Test new tools in the sandbox, or in a second account, before integrating them into your primary workflow.

Play: Learning through Low-Stakes Experiments

• Run mini-experiments. Two weeks for each theme: a brand new note-taking style, a new calendar layout, and a specific on soundscape.
• Keep a lab notebook. Note down the steps, hypotheses, and the results. Archive both misfires and wins.
• You can share your thoughts. A brief post or demonstration assists others, clarifies your ideas, and helps build credibility.

Making an Ethical Personal Tech

The philosophy of a philosopher cannot be fully realized without the moral code. Hicozijerzu advocates a stance that is both conscientious and curious.

Consent-Centered defaults

• Be sure to ask before adding someone to the tools that collect behavior data.
• Maintain your personal and work identities separately to avoid cross-tracking.
• Select products with transparent data policies, as well as predictable behavior.

evidence over hype

• Changelogs of demand benchmarks and clear trade-offs before taking action.
• Test features in constrained situations: Small datasets, restricted permissions.
• Make sure to keep your own “known excellent” rollback to prevent the possibility of upgrade regrets or lock-in.

Management of Attention

• Use alerts sparingly and set digest summaries for channels that aren’t urgent.
• Batch processing is used to process messages, emails, and approvals according to set times.
• Set up a routine at the end of each day to end loops and get into a clean environment.

Designing Your Environment

Environment shapes behavior. Your environment can gently guide you to make more positive choices.

Friction for Distraction flow for creation

• Remove time-sinks from your dock or home screen.
• Make sure you have separate profiles for your browsers, one for work and one to browse the web.
• Use quick-capture shortcuts to note notes and thoughts to decrease tab-hoarding.

Guardrails for Safety

• Maintain your browser, OS, and firmware up-to-date and enable the automatic update of security software.
• Utilize password managers, passkeys, and two-factor authentication as the default.
• Use containers to store risky files or VM.s Check the signatures and checksums.

Accessibility for What’s Important

• Put your plan, as well as your key metrics and the goals you want to achieve, on your computer or whiteboard.
• Highlights and lowlights from the week. Retro briefly on Fridays.
• Create a simple rule for your work environment: “Focus first, communicate next, and browse last.”

Designing Intentional Workflows

A great workflow can be criticized, but is tolerant. Hicozijerzu prefers tools that are scalable, flexible, and readable.

The Capture-Triage-Decide Loop

• The Funnel can input some inboxes (Notes app, task list, and bookmarks).
• Triage Label the items with the words action, referencee or incubate. You can also add only a small amount of details.
• Choose Transform actions into blocks scheduled for scheduling.g Archive reference; review the weekly incubation.

Versioned thinking

• Your workflows should be treated as software releases. Name the versions and changes to documents.
  • Keep a log of changes that you liked, what you disliked, and the reason you changed.
• Make templates for ongoing projects and make them more refined.

Tool Minimalism for Purposes

• Each tool is assigned the same “job to be accomplished.” Get rid of overlaps swiftly.
• Choose Open formats, as well as export routes, to stay clear of data traps.
• Utilize portable builds and web sandboxes for testing without contaminating the main computer.

Learning That Complements

Curiosity is heightened the moment you make learning more visible and easy to carry around.

Sprints as well as Deep Dives

• Select a biweekly theme (automation and privacy, accessibility, or automation).
• Combine one primary resource (docs/specs) along with interpretive source (talks/tutorials).
• Take three key takeaways and one open question for each sprint.

Metadata and Memory

• Keep a log of your personal changes to research, readings, and choices.
• Tag artifacts with “production-ready,” “prototype,” or “reference-only.”
• Keep canonical examples in a safe place and minimum reproducible cases to be reused in the future.

Community care, trust, and respect

Healthy ecosystems thrive with respect for contributions and clear evidence.

Add Signal, Reduce Noise

• Make benchmarks available, MREs, or annotated pictures when you need help.
• Stop the loop of threads you start with results as well as lessons learnt.
• Authors and credit maintainers, be sure to cite sources appropriately.

Micro-projects that have macro value

• Release a tiny sample implementation of a complex pattern.
• Write “how I verified X” Notes that demonstrate the concept of evidence-first thinking.
• Maintain scope, keep control of the version, and make it easy to get onboard.

Balancing Convenience with Intentionality and

Convenience is great, until it quietly dictates your life. Hicozijerzu strives for conscious convenience: easy to focus on what is important, and deliberate to focus on what is distracting.

A Two-List Method

• The list contains “frictionless” tasks, speedy capture of data, secure login, and scheduled backups.
• Checklist “intentional” tasks like social browsing, shopping, notifications.
• Make the list automated, and add mindful checkpoints to the second list.

The Small-Bet Habit

• Take small, reversible bets. Adjust one setting, experiment with one technique, and learn one method.
• Weekly review note what’s a good thing, and reverse what doesn’t, and note any unexpected.
• Be proud of the process Not perfectionism. Progress compounds quietly.

Final Take

Hicozijerzu isn’t a tool or a trend; it’s a stance. Consider your attention to be precious resource, your information as a sacred thing, and your interest as a source of power. With prudence, presence, and a sense of play, we can live lives in which technology increases what we value, without taking the spotlight.