Computers have been perplexing me for decades. Is my computer use helping me or hindering me? I honestly can’t tell, but I suspect that while some judicious use of computers is helpful, the amount I’m using them currently is having negative effects.
There is one way to test this hypothesis, and I’ve tried it before. A clean break. Just as a fast can sometimes be helpful for a short time but you wouldn’t want to do it all year, I sometimes feel like I need a short complete break from computers.
But I'm not going to have a complete break, instead I'm going to do my best to simplify and reduce my computer use over the rest of August and see what happens.
