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Henry David Thoreau
1817 – 1862 · Writer, Naturalist, Philosopher
Thoreau walked into the woods at Walden Pond to strip life down to its essentials and prove that most of what people chase is unnecessary. He went to jail rather than pay taxes supporting a war he opposed, and wrote the essay on civil disobedience that later inspired Gandhi and King.
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VER-XIII-0001“I feel like I'm being manipulated by social media but I can't stop scrolling.”VER-XIII-0002“My kids know more about technology than I do.”CTL-IX-0026“I cut my life down to what matters and it finally feels right.”CTL-IX-0036“I cut my screen time hard and I got my evenings, my sleep, and my mind back.”CTL-VIII-0032“I'm in the best creative run of my life and I want to protect it.”CTL-IX-0045“I'm completely burned out and I can't even tell where work ends anymore.”CTL-IX-0058“I cut my life down to what matters and there's finally room to breathe.”CTL-IX-0067“I cut my commitments in half and somehow my life got twice as rich.”CTL-IX-0079“I deliberately built a quiet, unimpressive life and it's exactly right for me.”VER-XIII-0049“I read a whole book this week instead of scrolling, and it felt like waking up.”VER-XIII-0052“I finally live deliberately instead of letting the apps live for me.”VER-XIII-0056“I grayscaled my screen and the apps lost their grip overnight.”
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