Click. Read. Love. 1.24.25
If time (and attention) is money, the current moment presents an opportunity to reclaim our most valuable asset.
Earlier this week I wrote about how we need to break up with billionaires and their tech.
I think most of us also wish we had more time, and yet so much of it is spent in ways we might not want. Seven hours a day (average screen time) is almost 50 hours in a week. In a month, that comes out to 8 days. That’s longer than most people take for vacation. It’s time we don’t get back.
Maybe that’s why, rather impulsively, we got in the car on Monday and drove four hours to Rhode Island. We walked the beach looking for shells, did puzzles, skated on the frozen pond in my Dad’s backyard, visited Craig’s parents, and watched the sunrise. I stopped myself from picking up my phone what felt like 1000 times.
I know I can’t bury my head in the sand, but I can’t stay endlessly plugged into the news or whatever horrible thing Trump and his broligarchy are doing either. I keep thinking about this quote from an essay I read a few days ago:
The first four years of Donald Trump was a continuous panic attack. I’m not going through that again. You don’t have to either. They’re on stage, but you don’t have to be their audience.
Their strategy to shock, enrage, and confuse works best when we take the bait. But what if we don’t? We may not have billions, but we have something powerful, the ability to give Trump (and his ass kissing billionaires) a communal🖕. If time (and attention) is money, the current moment presents an opportunity to reclaim our most valuable asset. After all, “what’s the point of having fuck you money if you can’t even say fuck you?”
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In this week’s edition of Click. Read. Love.
How to keep your friends
An absolutely wild true crime documentary
My ritual that makes life better (especially in winter)
How school voucher programs funnel money towards wealthy families
The very challenging puzzles we love
And more!