Many of us yearn for a way to be fully online without all of the mindlessness, passivity and addiction that often entraps us. Some of us oscillate between fully online and fully offline in a sort of mad dance to establish what feels right. Others have lost hope that it’s possible to engage in a way that feels true and alive, and have resigned to... See more

But the real reason is because the flood of information on the internet made me feel anxious and incapable and directionless and overwhelmed.

I’m writing this because my screen time has gone way up and I’m feeling burned out. I write this as a hypocrite who uses AI more than he should and chooses screen time over forest time far too often. But so many of my conversations with friends around social media are how to distance ourselves from it while still getting the things we love:... See more