Did Texting Ruin Storytelling?

Alden Olmsted
8 min readNov 5, 2023

I’m going with yes

Garage find GOLD! My first cell

I Still Got It

Yesterday I took a break from our beautiful Northern California fall weather to address my nemesis — the garage, and as I was consolidating a few old boxes into newer boxes I stumbled upon the tiny hand-held invention shown above.

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Alden Olmsted

I was born in a small town in Northern California just another latch-key kid obsessed with BMX and Tom Petty. Now I make films and travel and write when I can.