My Year of Tech and Relaxation by August Lamm

“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

for nearly fourteen years afterwards, I stared at a smartphone every single day. Five thousand days, all in all. I can’t think of anything else I’ve done with the same level of commitment. There have been days where I’ve had nothing to eat or drink and there have been nights when I didn’t sleep. But until very recently, I never once went twenty-fou... See more

all the “shoulds” I let go of

for me, this was a bit of a radical process, and it started with a detox. right around the beginning of the pandemic, I stopped using social media. I stopped checking my phone in the mornings. I stopped consuming a feed of “inspiring” things. I stopped being in the crowded pond of other people, many of them performing ... See more