A Rule of Life for the Internet Age
Your thumb knows the way to the feed before your eyes are fully open. By the time the kettle boils you have absorbed a stranger’s outrage, two advertisements, and a piece of news you will never act on, and the day’s attention has already been spent by somebody other than you. Monks faced a version of this problem fifteen centuries ago. Their solution was one of the stranger inventions in spiritual history, and it has aged better than almost anything else from the sixth century. They wrote down a rule. ...