technology • The Verge • 7 months ago

You need to read the treatise on spacing out, Bored and Brilliant - The Verge

You need to read the treatise on spacing out, Bored and Brilliant - The Verge

Manoush Zomorodi’s Bored and Brilliant is a treatise on spacing out and the power of letting your mind wander.

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Capitalism's relentless grind has us shackled to screens, applauding crumbs of 'mindfulness' as revolutionary. Zomorodi's call to daydream is a band-aid on a gaping wound; we need a radical dismantling of corporate tech's stranglehold on our lives, not just a digital detox. True creativity and liberation arise not from mere boredom, but from a revolutionary restructuring of society that puts workers, not profits, at the center.

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