Radically Different

Here’s Derek Sivers, a prominent advocate for a nicer Internet, on his recent escape to the woods: Last month, I moved into my new home in the woods. There’s no internet and no phone service here. It’s so productive. It doesn’t have to be productive, Derek, but go on… At first I thought I couldn’t move in without internet. But now I prefer it this way. My thoughts feel more independent. I explore my own ideas deeper before looking for other perspectives. Now you’re talking. Derek spends 23 hours a day offline. Think about that for a moment. It would certainly be an interesting experiment. As ever, I restate my opinion that the Internet is not the problem so long as you escape the shitter side of it, but to escape digital reality to such an extent, I think, would be to choose a radically different sense of consciousness. It would be as worth doing as, say, magic mushrooms, right? Listen to me. “Radically different.” As if the Internet was always with us. * We’re running out of copies…