Zen and the art of Mobile Phone Repair

Date
January 24, 2025

Speaker
Gautam Luhana

Abstract
What do you do when you run into a tech problem with your cell phone that has no solution on the internet? What if you have reason to believe that you may be the only person ever to encounter this particular problem? What if describing the problem to a cell phone store owner causes them to malfunction as if you had said ‘This statement is false’ to a robot. This is a short UDLS about a frustrating yet fascinating problem I faced with my cell phone and how fixing it felt like trying to find an elegant proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem.