March 2024
I couldn’t help but come to the conviction, right there on the bus, that one of the most important questions modern man must ask himself is how much time he is willing to spend being passively entertained.
Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era
I couldn’t help but come to the conviction, right there on the bus, that one of the most important questions modern man must ask himself is how much time he is willing to spend being passively entertained.
Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:
Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
... See moreIf your average daily screentime is 4-5 hours (the minimum average I see in most people around me), continuing at this rate will cost you 15 years of your life. 15 years. If it’s 5-6 hours, it’ll cost you 18 years of your life. Do I want to give away 15 years of my one life, mindlessly for nothing? That’s a definite no.
the zeitgeist is going offline
“Imagine looking back over your life and watching ten years’ worth of footage: you at various ages holding a smartphone, scrolling, rapt, pacified, oblivious to your surroundings, to all the things you are choosing not to do, to all the sides of yourself you don’t know because you’ve surrendered to your smartphone the time it would take to discover... See more