"Why Choosing the Human Checker is an Act of Resistance"

Self-checkout promised convenience. What it delivered was unpaid labor, eliminated jobs, and one less moment of human contact in your day.
Every time you scan your own groceries, you're making a choice about what kind of world you want to live in. It might feel like efficiency, but it's actually a trade: speed for engagement, autonomy for connection, frictionless transactions for the unpredictable beauty of human encounter.

This isn't about being anti-technology. It's about recognizing that every "solution" makes a claim about what matters and what doesn't. And maybe - just maybe - the brief exchange with a checker who makes eye contact and acknowledges you as a person is worth the extra 90 seconds.

Next time you're at the store and you have a choice, pause. Notice your default impulse. Are you actually in a rush, or have we all just been conditioned to see other people as friction?

Eric Anctil Keeps Evolving is a podcast about staying curious, grounded, and human in a fast-changing world. Each episode unpacks how humans and technology are actively reshaping each other—and what we can do about it.

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Eric Anctil Keeps Evolving is a podcast about staying curious, grounded, and human in a fast-changing world. Each episode unpacks how humans and technology are actively reshaping each other—and what we can do about it.

-|- Keep Evolving with Eric -|-

If you like what you heard, stick around, this is just the start of the conversation about how to stay human in unreal times.

Listen & Subscribe: ericanctil.com

Watch the YouTube Channel: @DrEricAnctil

Join the Newsletter: ericanctil.substack.com

Say hello: eric@ericanctil.com

Guiding real people through unreal times.