Big +1 to this counsel to have a digital sabbath: Turning my devices off on Saturday evenings and not turning them back on until mid-Monday morning has been such a healing salve for my brain.
Le Guin’s advice—read when you cannot write, sleep when you cannot read—has been top of mind all week and I am intensely grateful.
So much this, but especially the bit about *inefficiency*; to borrow from amb, we need to focus on critical connections over critical mass: (cf. )
Searched a very simple question—the kind that a year or two ago would have returned multiple credible and useful answers—and got page after page of obvious slop. What a fucking waste. We made a wonderful thing and then just goddamn threw it away.