On solitude, which is hardly anything but alone. Replacing out every bit of our bored life with a dope hit of an email refresh, fail video, or the ever so rewarding red dot, only delays this defaulting inevitable. Here’s a beautiful paraphrase from Cal Newport’s ‘Digital Minimalism,’ touching on a the science our brains when it is at a neutral state. This view of solitude is a reinforcement of our ancestral social needs, it is wired in us to remind us of what we treasure the most: ourselves and others.
