Seriously, this is good advice (Photo: Createblog)

What do you do when the power goes out? What happens when you can’t surf the web or watch TV, and when even the battery on your mobile phone runs out? After the initial shock dissipates into low-grade frustration, it’s common to feel a strange sense of liberation. When you can’t work or even procrastinate, you end up doing the things you’ve been putting off, whether that’s reading a long-neglected book or having a chat with the neighbours.

There’s a good reason why we sometimes look back on blackouts and blizzards fondly as times when we’re jolted out of our routines, so is it worth pulling the plug deliberately once in a while, and having a modern ’secular Sabbath

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