Thoreau built a small cabin by Walden Pond, moved in with almost nothing, and kept an account of what a life stripped to essentials actually feels like. The result became the founding text of every simplify your life movement since.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, he warned, and his answer, deliberate living, minimal wants, attention to the present, reads today like a rebuke to the scrolling age written two centuries early.
For anyone feeling owned by their own possessions and notifications.
