Avoiding social media and news consumption can be freeing and conducive to insightful thinking.

“I'd sort of spent decades spending part of each year studying wild baboons out in a national park in East Africa. And I'd spend three months a year without electricity, without phone calls, with going 12 hours a day without saying a word to somebody. And when I finally would, it would be somebody nomadic pastoralist guy in a different language. Yeah, I did 90% of my like insightful thinking about anything in the laboratory during those three months each year, and not one in the lab, and not when inundated with stuff.”