First, you leave social media—it feels like swimming in sewage. Every scroll invites judgment, comparison, outrage, and distraction. So you stop. You delete the apps, stop checking, and suddenly, hours of life return to you.

After years of people yelling at me in books, think pieces, and tweets (lol) to “break up with my phone,” “delete your social media accounts,” and “fuck Mark Zuckerberg,” turns out the thing that I needed was a whole conglomeration of quiet arguments and technological shifts that made my phone and the social media accounts on it feel less precious... See more

the flood of information on the internet made me feel anxious and incapable and directionless and overwhelmed. So I stopped.