Josh Ginter on pulling back before getting away

Josh Ginter, in his excellent Sunday Edition from mid-July: We spent five days camping in a one-bar-of-LTE-but-still-won’t-work area last weekend, so this is the first installment of the Sunday Edition in a few weeks. The days off were a good recharge, but I also can’t say it was fully enjoyable. I’m not sure a person can go from a long period of heavy work to instant shut-off without a slower pullback of sorts. I think things were too abrupt for me, and it impacted our time away. I feel this in two ways; what is it with cellular network signal strength indicators? Are they the modern equivalent of fake progress bars? And, also, “pullback” is a thing I’ll be aiming for prior to my next getaway. So often the period right before some time off is harried rather than relaxed. It is a sprint and scramble to make sure I get as much off my plate as possible before I step away. Perhaps I should be doing the opposite somehow?