A year offline, what I have learned | Paul Miller | TEDxEutropolis
Paul Miller is an American Technology Journalist from Springfield, Missouri and senior editor for The Verge. During the past year he decided to disconnect from the hyperconnected world in an...
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Translator: Marta Palacio Reviewer: Denise RQ I left the Internet for an entire year. I was 26 years old, it was May 1, 2012, and I pulled the plug. There were a lot of reasons, but the main reason was probably that I was 26 years old, I had life figured out, and I was really overwhelmed. It was a bit of a crisis. I just felt like everything was too much, and I couldn't win. The Internet kept on coming, there's more emails. You can't win against your email inbox, because the moment you'll hit "archive" on the very last one, you're going to get a new email. You can't win on Twitter, because there's so much Justin Bieber to talk about. I felt this in a really overwhelming, very personal way that the Internet was def...
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Translator: Marta Palacio Reviewer: Denise RQ I left the Internet for an entire year. I was 26 years old, it was May 1, 2012, and I pulled the plug. There were a lot of reasons, but the main reason was probably that I was 26 years old, I had life figured out, and I was really overwhelmed. It was a bit of a crisis. I just felt like everything was too much, and I couldn't win. The Internet kept on coming, there's more emails. You can't win against your email inbox, because the moment you'll hit "archive" on the very last one, you're going to get a new email. You can't win on Twitter, because there's so much Justin Bieber to talk about. I felt this in a really overwhelming, very personal way that the Internet was def...
