The latest must-have accessory is a “stop-scrolling bag” — a tote packed with analog activities like watercolors and crossword puzzles.

Why it matters: We pick up our phones 100+ times a day and spend hours glued to our screens. “Analog bags,” as they’re also called, are one way millennials and Gen Zers are reclaiming that time, Axios’ Sami Sparber reports.

🧶 How it works: “I basically just put everything I could grab for instead of my phone into a bag,” including knitting, a scrapbook and a Polaroid camera, says Sierra Campbell, the Northern California content creator behind the trend. The 31-year-old keeps one such bag at home, carrying it from room to room, and another in her car.

Some parents are jumping on board, and loading kid-friendly versions with toys, crayons and coloring books.

Zoom out: The trend has quickly spread on social media, part of a bigger shift to unplug.

Excellent good news! Homo must prove it has the stamina and ethics to just not roll over and let AI tell it everything. Every news item about AI brags about how it replaces the brain and every external body function employed by that brain. Incidentally there are a few AI corporations with just that in mind – replace the mind!

Spend some time every day self-contained – well, maybe a coffee is okay.

Ancient Mariner