This document discusses the philosophy of technology and its application to design for society. It addresses how technologies mediate human experiences and actions, sometimes going too far (hubris). The author proposes an approach called "ascetic design" to shape technologies and account for their moral impacts, by anticipating how they will mediate human-world relations, assessing these mediations, and designing them to allow for human autonomy and self-reflection. The goal is to design technologies and human-technology relations in a way that considers humans' mediated experiences and roles.