Who has not found themselves scrolling endlessly on screens and wondered: Am I living or
distracting myself from living? In Emergency Break Glass adapts Friedrich Nietzsche's
passionate quest for meaning into a world overwhelmed by content. Written long before the
advent of smartphones Nietzsche's aphoristic philosophy advocated a fierce mastery of
attention a strict information diet and a powerful connection to the natural world. Drawing
on Nietzsche's work technology journalist Nate Anderson advocates for a life of goal-oriented
creative exertion as more meaningful than the frictionless leisure often promised by our
devices. He rejects the simplicity of contemporary prescriptions like reducing screen time in
favour of looking deeply at what truly matters to us then finding ways to make our
technological tools serve this vision. With a light touch suffused by humour Anderson uncovers
the impact of this yes-saying philosophy on his own life-and perhaps on yours.
