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Tag: Camp Grounded

What I learned about digital addiction by going swimming with my cellphone

on July 23, 2013

When I jumped in a river with my cellphone in my pocket, it forced me to take a kind of vacation from the internet and real-time connections — and while I didn’t have any huge epiphanies, I learned a thing or two about myself.

Sorry, but the Internet doesn’t change who you really are — it reveals who you really are

on July 12, 2013

Events like Camp Grounded try to convince us that we will somehow become better people if we can just find a way to disconnect from the internet and our devices — but those things aren’t the real source of our problems.

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