'Plug In Better': A Manifesto

The trick isn't to unplug from our devices -- it's to unplug from the distractions, information overload, and trash that make us unhappy. The new unplugging doesn't require you to quit Facebook or throw out your iPhone. What it requires is careful attention to the sources of our discomfort; to the challenging qualities of online interaction, or of simply living in a networked world. Looking at those pain points, and finding a way to switch them off, is the new unplugging.

Unplug from distraction. Unplug from Fear of Missing Out (FOMO). Unplug from disconnection. Unplug from information overload. Unplug from the shallows -- a sense that we're numbing out and dumbing down.