We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action.

Smart phones and the social media industry is essentially a giant machine for persuading you to make the wrong choices about what to do with your attention, and therefore with your finite life, by getting you to care about things you didn’t want to care about. And you are in far too little control over your attention to decide, as by fiat, that you’re not going to succumb to its temptations.