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MJ Biggs's avatar

Great article, James. Love the ideas for reconnecting with other humans and nature and the related reading recommendations.

I recently returned from a short vacation in Cancun with a relative. The first thing most people asked when I got back was not if I had a good time or what I did, but if I got lots of good pictures. No, I didn't, because I didn't bring my phone to most places we went. I wanted to be fully present in the moment and have no distractions. Everything I needed was already there.

Now, I understand that it's nice to take photos for the purpose of reminiscing about your experience years later, but I get the impression that's not why most of my peers asked about photos. I think their minds were more on taking vacation photos for the sake of having something newsworthy to post on social media. I wish our society would re-normalize not sharing every event or place we go online.

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Mario Velez's avatar

Culture is going to figure out what it means to be alive in a meaningful way rather than an efficient way.

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