You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. In 2008, Tiffany Shlain’s father, Leonard, was diagnosed with brain cancer, and she began to change her use of technology when the two of them were together. She called it a tech shabbat — after the Jewish day of rest — and she has written several articles and a recent book, called “24/6,” about the idea. “The digital revolution has blurred the lines between time on and time off, and time off is disappearing,” she wrote in The Boston Globe. We can barely catch our breath in the tsunami of personal and work digital input, which results in us not being truly present for any of it.”

Source: New York Times October 22, 2019 12:11 UTC