We have normalised filling every quiet moment with something — podcasts while walking, screens while eating, sound while falling asleep — and the exhaustion most people feel isn’t from doing too much, it’s from never once letting the mind go quiet

Think about the last time you were genuinely, uncomplicatedly bored. No, I do not mean that low-level restlessness that arrives when a meeting runs long — I mean the kind of boredom that used to come on long car trips as a child, or on summer afternoons when there was nothing to do and no [...] The post We have normalised filling every quiet moment with something — podcasts while walking, screens while eating, sound while falling asleep — and the exhaustion most people feel isn’t from doing too