> The wall we all hit at some point during the pandemic was digital. It was a wall of video meetings, Slack threads, text chains, and emails. A wall built from Netflix and Disney+, Facebook and TikTok, Instagram, and the endless onslaught of urgent tweets. It was the wall in our hands, on our desks, and beside our pillows, a wall that we turned to for salvation but kept smacking into and then wondering why on earth our bodies were so damn beat at the end of each day. The wall was the full unleashed reality of the digital future as it completely consumed our lives.
And have no sense of it at all. "We all" did not hit that wall. It makes me glad I'm not on social media and work in an industry that allows me to switch off when I exit the building. My fondest memory of the pandemic was teaching my son to ride his bike, there was no traffic so it was safe to do it in the street.