“Have smartphones destroyed a generation? […] the plight of iGen provides a strong warning about the danger of solitude deprivation”.

“There’s nothing wrong with connectivity, but if you don’t balance it with regular doses of solitude, its benefits will diminish”.

“Humans are not wired to be constantly wired”.

“Jean-Jacques Rousseau once wrote: “I never do anything but when walking, the countryside is my study.”

“The conversation office hours strategy is effective for improving your social life because it overcomes the major obstacle to meaningful socializing: the concern, that unsolicited calls might be bothersome”.

Contemplating about the heritage of Aristotle: “a life well lived requires activites that serve no other purpose than the satisfaction that the activity itself generates”.

“When the void is filled, you no longer need distractions to help you avoid it”.

“The internet helped fuel a newly resurgent FI (Financial Independence) community that consists mainly of young people who are finding shortcuts to this freedom through extreme frugality”.

“A seemingly tedious task like clearing trails (to hike later) can suddenly seem significantly more rewarding than passively surfing Twitter”.

“Leisure Lesson #1: Prioritize demanding activity over passive consumption”.

“Leisure Lesson #2: Use skills to produce valuable things in the physical world”.

“Schedule your low-quality leisure”.

“You can’t build a billion-dollar empire like Facebook if you’re wasting hours every day using a service like Facebook”.

“The smartphone helped companies like Google and Facebook storm these remaining redoubts of unmolested focus and start ransacking- generating massive new fortunes in the process”.

“Embrace slow media”.

“We eagerly signed up for what Silicon Valley was selling, but soon realized that in doing so we were accidently degrading our humanity”.