An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too. - Cal Newport

I want to spend time on what’s important, instead of what’s immediate,

For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasantly stale.

It’s now possible to completely banish solitude from your life. Thoreau and Storr worried about people enjoying less solitude. We must now wonder if people might forget this state of being altogether.