I’ve been trying to spend more time offline. But it’s pretty hard for us info junkies, isn’t it?
At any rate, I swear I wanted to write a post about brain fatigue this weekend, but didn’t, because my brain has been too fatigued. It’s been a pretty demanding 6 months for my consulting activities where I’ve been asked to use my brain in challenging and interesting new ways. Plus, about a month ago, I purchased an iPad. Now I have the sneaky sensation that I’m spending way too much of my life staring at screens.
So I didn’t write that blog post. Instead, I spent the weekend reading, walking/running on trails, and getting too much sun.
Yet digital fatigue has been on my mind a lot lately. This NYTimes article, Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime, makes the point better than I would have.
Plus, they refer to that science stuff.
I went to my first BBS meet-up in ’87. Like many, many others, I’ve been a online full throttle for over 10 years.
I’m thinking by the time I’m 40, I’m going to need to take a year off from the internet or maybe my head will explode. Or my heart.
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