Don’t Forget How to Be Alone
Embrace whatever pandemic solitude remains—and, in the future, re-create it
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4 min readJun 4, 2021
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I recently found myself standing alone on the Arctic tundra, over 100 miles from civilization. I spent a month up there reporting portions of my new book, The Comfort Crisis. There was no human around me for miles and miles. There were also no people “with” me through TV, podcasts, social…