Are You Really Against a Hard Walden Pond?

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i know at least half a dozen people who have executed a hard walden pond plan with varying degrees of literal fidelity. So i would say, when you approach this as a practical matter, not as a religious one, it's actually not that hard. It's ar there are features available. You can put your fone into dark mod. You can you not build habits around other information consumption.

Writer and management consultant Venkatesh Rao talks about Waldenponding with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Rao coined the term Waldenponding to describe various levels of retreating from technology akin to how Thoreau extolled the virtues of retreating from social contact and leading a quieter life at Walden Pond. Rao argues that the value of Waldenponding is overrated and that extreme Waldenponding is even somewhat immoral. Rao sees online intellectual life as a form of supercomputer, an intellectual ecosystem that produces new knowledge and intellectual discourse. He encourages all of us to contribute to that intellectual ecosystem even when it can mean losing credit for some of our ideas and potentially some of our uniqueness.