24/6
Tiffany Shlain · 2019
24/6 (2019) is a book by Tiffany Shlain on Digital Minimalism. Filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain on "Tech Shabbat", the family ritual of going screen-free for 24 hours every week, why an ancient day of rest fits a hyperconnected age, and how to actually do it.
A filmmaker who helped build internet culture makes the most practical case yet for switching it all off one day a week, and shows you exactly how.
Two of the ideas you’ll keep
The Clif summary of 24/6 pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first two.
- A **Tech Shabbat** is a weekly ritual, not a detox. Detoxes assume you are poisoned and will relapse; a recurring, scheduled, celebratory day off screens becomes something you look forward to rather than white-knuckle through.
- Shlain reframes the Sabbath through Abraham Joshua Heschel's idea of a **sanctuary in time**, a "palace in time," in his phrase, you don't need a special place to feel apart from the world, you need a protected stretch of hours that recurs whether or not you feel you've earned it.
The other 5 — and the full 11-minute summary — are in the app.
What’s inside: 9 chapters
The whole summary runs about 11 minutes, read or listened to.
- The Insider Who Turned It Off
- A Sanctuary in Time
- The Weekend Was Fought For
- Designed to Be Hard to Put Down
- What the First Screen-Free Day Feels Like
- Boredom, the Default Mode Network, and Ideas
- Raising Kids Inside the Ritual
- Mortality, Presence, and Why Time Is the Real Subject
- How to Start This Week
Finish 24/6 tonight.
Read or listen to the full summary in about 11 minutes, then keep the ideas with a minute of review a day. Start with the 2-minute quiz — no card required.
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