By the sea, in a small town in Cornwall. Loads to do, and he does a lot of it - he surfs, rides his bike, climbs, hangs with his mates. He’s an excellent fellow

By the sea, in a small town in Cornwall. Loads to do, and he does a lot of it - he surfs, rides his bike, climbs, hangs with his mates. He’s an excellent fellow, and I hope nothing I’ve said suggests otherwise. When he’s not on his phone, he’s an incredibly balanced chap. Even when he is on his phone, he’s brilliant - as I said, he looks at some seriously interesting stuff, much of it about space and rockets and physics, as this is the stuff that sparks him. But my wider worry is still there - not just for him, but for all of us. A world seen through a 5” screen is just a poor facsimile. It’s not the world, full of the gnarly stuff - and the beautiful stuff - that goes on out here. Boredom is another thing - actually (as we hopefully all know by now..), boredom and downtime is useful. It lets the brain make sense of the world, it’s where the ideas happen. If your “downtime” is a constant buzz of notifications, or dopamine hits, what happens to inspiration, or those “tada” moments?