Paul Miller had a quarter life crisis and decided to quit his job and unplug himself from the internet for a year. Better for him—The Verge paid him to leave the internet and then write about it. His conclusion is what you might expect it to be.

Technology has created some new ways for us to shop and save money! (Ha, just kidding, nothing about shopping saves you money.)

When participants were provided with a compelling justification for the paywall—that the NYT was likely to go bankrupt without it—their support and willingness to pay increased.

Now, however, the proof is starting to pile up. The first good, peer-reviewed research is emerging, and the picture is much gloomier than the trumpet blasts of Web utopians have allowed. The current incarnation of the Internet—portable, social, accelerated, and all-pervasive—may be making us not just dumber or lonelier but more depressed and anxious, prone to obsessive-compulsive and attention-deficit disorders, even outright psychotic. Our digitized minds can scan like those of drug addicts, and normal people are breaking down in sad and seemingly new ways.

—Hey, look at that. The internet is ACTUALLY, CERTIFIABLY, SCIENTIFICALLY making us crazy. To the woods!