The proper response to this situation, we’re often told today, is to render ourselves indistractible in the face of interruptions: to learn the secrets of “relentless focus”—usually involving meditation, web-blocking apps, expensive noise-canceling headphones, and more meditation—so as to win the attentional struggle once and for all. But this is a... See more

Our anxiety-burnout crisis is not directly caused by excess, but distraction. We are spiritually malnourished from fast content. Our mistake is thinking that being informed is the same as being smart, or being alive, or being, entirely. So, practicing relegere is not actually about “being a better person”. The point of exercising focus is not... See more

And the problem is that every time you go on Twitter/Instagram/etc., you lose hours. Not because you're browsing for hours but because those spaces agitate the mind, and it becomes nearly impossible to get back into contemplative mode. The spirit of Sublime is very much about rescuing that lost intentionality—and making space for thinking—without... See more