I enjoyed Cal Newport's point in Digital Minimalism, that "solitude is necessary to thrive as a human being."
In his book, Newport argues that modernity is at odds with solitude and talks about the disadvantages of solitude deprivation.
In his book, Newport argues that modernity is at odds with solitude and talks about the disadvantages of solitude deprivation.
Newport's message always lands on the people that crave solitude the most. Some people work this way. I tend to work much better alone, distraction-free. But it's a dangerous game to take anecdata that speaks to yourself and extrapolate it out to an entire species with very different societies and cultural contexts.