A lot of commentary here describing what he’s doing as meditation, but it really just seems like cutting out electronic social distractions for a while. A simple reduction of stimuli. While like meditation or Stoicism, that practice is also in the process of being packaged for commodification and cargo culting (“digital detox”, “dopamine fasts”), I genuinely think that the future will consist of such stimulus dieting to manage with a rapidly overstimulating, over-complicating world. In the same way that actual dieting has been a way to deal with a world awash in cheap carbs and calories.
Makes me wonder if there are further rules to add. I’ve always thought that abstaining from mobile devices is not enough- anything distracting and anxiety-inducing can be done bigger and better on a full-sized monitor.
Should other forms of media be avoided as well? Interactive games, passive videos? Music? Even books? Everyone’s threshold is different, but just wondering what people think is a reasonable delimiter.
Makes me wonder if there are further rules to add. I’ve always thought that abstaining from mobile devices is not enough- anything distracting and anxiety-inducing can be done bigger and better on a full-sized monitor.
Should other forms of media be avoided as well? Interactive games, passive videos? Music? Even books? Everyone’s threshold is different, but just wondering what people think is a reasonable delimiter.