The Notebook Rule

The action items to take from this essay would therefore be threefold:

1. Go outside and touch some grass . Continue to do so until the urge to open Twitter disappears.


2. Double and triple down on your individuality: Know yourself enough to know what is special. Improve that for years and years. Ignore everything else. Over time this will result in a ve

I was the guy who connected with everybody; inside, I knew I’d actually lost connection with the people I cared most about. And I’d lost connection with myself. I couldn’t take it anymore. Technology was becoming toxic. My primary poisons were social networks. I needed out.

All across our culture, you’ll find people eager to abandon the fundamental task of our lives, fostering and maintaining human connection, so that they can fall deeper into a pit of hedonistic distraction forever. You send an email a large language model wrote for you to spare yourself a minute of mental activity at the end of a long day working f