Unplug now
It’s Labor Day- shouldn’t you be outside grilling something instead of hanging here online? From Portfolio.com:
Smartphones and the growth of social media makes us all too available all the time. That’s why disciplined unplugging can be key to sanity, creativity, and productivity.
The Pew Center for Internet Research says the Web has made information “abundant, cheap, personal, and participatory.” It has given us information we need, when and where we need it. We now have the ability to keep connected despite being such a mobile world, with tighter ties with far flung friends and family. (Free Skype calls to Europe, anybody?) Some have called the Web an external hard drive for humanity, or even a sort of collective consciousness.
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…We are collectively distracted online, or on our devices, and we do ourselves long-term harm, not good (such as missing our greater evolution and calling or engaging in meaningful personal connections). To paraphrase Emily Yoffe in Slate: We’re running in endless circles chasing information that doesn’t matter.
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Give your body back its full range of motion: Do you know the physical signs of a right-handed desk worker? Overdeveloped forearms, deeper downward curve of fingers, wide ass, Thoracic spine curved forward rounded shoulders, head forward with a hump at C7, strain in the right neck and right arm from ear holding and mouse movements, lower-back strain. Don’t be that person. Daily use of full range of motion in all your joints, even opposition motion: This mandates getting off the devices and out from the screen. Get back in nature: Once you unplug, you may choose to take another step. Get back into the natural world. Take a real unplugged vacation. Go camping or into a remote cabin or the seashore.
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Read more here. Or better yet, turn off and get out. Happy holiday.