Put another way, to approach attention economy services with the intentionality proposed by Ginsberg and Burke is not a commonsense adjustment to your digital habits, but is instead better understood as a bold act of resistance.

Extracting eyeball minutes, the key resource for companies like Google and Facebook, has become significantly more lucrative than extracting oil.

Leisure Lesson #3: Seek activities that require real-world, structured social interactions.

Leisure Lesson #2: Use skills to produce valuable things in the physical world.

Craft makes us human, and in doing so, it can provide deep satisfactions that are hard to replicate in other (dare I say) less hands-on activities.

Leisure Lesson #1: Prioritize demanding activity over passive consumption.

a life well lived requires activities that serve no other purpose than the satisfaction that the activity itself generates.

Solitude Deprivation A state in which you spend close to zero time alone with your own thoughts and free from input from other minds.

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” Blaise Pascal