Something is happening - quietly, globally, and all at once.

Millions of people are independently arriving at the same conclusion: the way we live with technology isn’t working. We are pushing back against a digital world that promised connection and delivered dependency.

The data is undeniable:

• Vinyl records have grown for 18 straight years, generating $1.4 billion in US revenue in 2024 alone - nearly triple the sales of CDs.
• Cassette tapes surged over 200% in the first quarter of 2025.
• Film photography is experiencing its strongest resurgence since the early 2000s, with manufacturers like Kodak, Fujifilm, and Pentax investing heavily in new production.
• Dumbphones - devices designed deliberately to do less - have become a $10 billion market, driven by a generation seeking an escape from algorithmic addiction.
• Paper planners and journals sell over 1.3 billion units per year, with 64% of people still choosing physical planning tools even when digital ones are free.

These aren’t separate trends. They are one movement. And nobody is telling the full story.

I spent 22 years building the machine. Now I’m outside it.

My name is Jerzy Rajkow. For two decades, I was the Director of Administration and IT Director at one of the world’s top international law firms.

I managed the infrastructure. I deployed the systems. I oversaw the digital transformation of a global institution, making sure hundreds of professionals stayed connected, productive, and digitally dependent - around the clock.

I saw firsthand how technology reshapes organizations, relationships, and human behavior. 

And I began to see the cost: 

• The always-on culture. 
• The toxic narrow-spectrum blue light saturating every waking hour. 
• The growing body of research linking non-native electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure to long-term health consequences.
• Work projects creeping into family life and leisure time.

We are living under tech feudalism: a system in which billions of people use tools they don’t own, under terms they didn’t write, generating value they never capture.

I didn’t just theorize about this. 

I lived it. 

And then I walked away.

What is Use More Paper?

Use More Paper is a weekly podcast, YouTube show, and newsletter that explores the analog revival from every angle. Not as nostalgia. Not as a lifestyle aesthetic. As a necessary correction.

Each week, I sit down with the creators, thinkers, and makers at the frontier of the analog world:

• Designers building minimalist phones and dumbphones.
• Musicians pressing vinyl and releasing on tape.
• Scientists raising alarms about chronic artificial light and EMF exposure.
• Writers, artists, and professionals who still use notebooks and fountain pens.

Use More Paper is not anti-technology. 

It’s pro-choice. 

It argues that the most radical act in a hyperconnected world is to deliberately choose what deserves your attention - and what doesn’t.

Why Subscribe?

By subscribing you get free weekly dispatches straight to your inbox, including:

1. New Podcast Episodes & Interviews: Deep, unhurried conversations with the people building the analog alternative.
2. Data & Insights: Market analysis on the exploding analog economy.
3. Digital Minimalism Strategies: Practical ways to reclaim your attention, protect your biology from constant screen exposure, and build physical sovereignty in a digital world.

And the right to comment under podcast episodes and articles.

Join the resistance. 

Reclaim your attention. 

Use more paper.