Eliot Folsom is a freelance writer living in Miami.
Cutting back on screen time may be an especially popular resolution this January, as pandemic-forced isolation led many of us to be even more closely glued to our phones and laptops. “We don’t want to be enslaved to a device. We want to regain a measure of control,” writes James McWilliams in this 2016 piece. “Doing so will require something you might not expect—courting exactly the experience that digital life promises to end: stress.”