We’ve turned the internet into a vending machine. Push a button, get the Coke. If it doesn’t spit it out fast enough, beat the living shit out of it until it gives you two cokes. Instead, rabbit holing retrains both your curiosity and your patience. It reminds you the internet is more like a labyrinth, and the labyrinth rewards wanderers.

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

What shocks me is how many people forget that option exists. I recently had a post of mine get some attention where I shared six cool sites to help expand your music library, and surprisingly, a large portion of the comments were people confessing they had forgotten how to use the internet. That broke my heart a little.

You can’t call it the “online... See more