You won’t hear from me for 7 days

People are staring at screens more than ever.

The global average is now 6 hours and 38 minutes per day.

AI workflows have swept the internet this year, and everyone is working faster, broader, and “freeing up” time that’s actually just getting absorbed into more work and extra hours.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy using Claude as much as the next barefoot, hippie, internet marketer. And technology is a beautiful way to get and stay connected with people you’d otherwise never know. I’ve met some of the biggest and best influences in my life on the internet over the past few years.

But there’s a flip side to all of this….

People are becoming more scattered, more reactive, and more mentally cluttered than ever before. I’ve noticed this even in my own life. I can now make progress on multiple projects simultaneously while AI does work for me in the background, but the tendency to flip from one thing to the next follows me now even when I’m away from the screen.

So what’s the solution?

Well, recent brain scan studies reveal that even brief amounts of time in nature can resolve all of this. But this isn’t a new concept. Stephen and Rachel Kaplan were making a big deal about the importance of restorative environments in the workplace back in the late 80s and early 90s.

They’re the reason most modern workplaces are now designed around trees, gardens, and natural lighting.

And going back further…

Our ancestors were known for spending extended amounts of time in nature, in solitude, to come to things we couldn’t quite know in our usual, busy day-to-day lives.

The bottom line is, without quiet time in nature, we're cooked.

Which is why you won’t hear from me for the next 6 or 7 days. I’ll be off-grid, in the wilderness, no phone, no WiFi, no people even, just me and the natural world doing one big reset for the year to come.

So that’s it for today.

Wishing you the best,

Kevin Hood