Today, with thanks to the wonderful work of the team at On Being, something short to watch.

I’ve written before about the numbing effect of technology, how we can use it to avoid contact with ourselves and others, and the far-reaching consequences of all this.

Here, Louis CK talks powerfully, and with a glorious lightness, about technology and our dangerous flight from our sadness and loneliness.

What, he asks, if we put down our phones and started letting the sadness in?